ISP-level filtering restricts several crypto news sites in Russia

Beincrypto reports that several international crypto news sites were inaccessible on Russian home internet connections, with tests suggesting internet providers are blocking access at the network level. Testing by the Outset PR analyst team used a representative list of outlets — Benzinga, Coinness, FastBull, FXEmpire, CoinGeek, Criptonoticias, Cointelegraph, CoinEdition, The Coin Republic, AMBCrypto and Nada News — and found many failed to load on domestic Wi‑Fi while loading normally via alternative connections, indicating the issues were not caused by website outages or server failures.

Further technical checks showed that enabling a Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) circumvention tool allowed previously inaccessible sites to load, which strongly suggests DPI-based filtering rather than DNS manipulation. A separate check asking 10 crypto users across different regions to open the same sites found only two reported little difficulty, a pattern consistent with distributed, provider-level enforcement rather than a centralized shutdown.

None of the affected domains appear in Roskomnadzor’s public blacklist, and the regulator notes some access restrictions need not be reflected in the public registry under Articles 65.1 and 65.2 of the federal law on communications.