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Roskomnadzor blocks most commercial VPNs at the protocol level. The ones that survive are VLESS Reality, AmneziaWG, and Shadowsocks 2022.
TSPU blocks WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, plain VLESS, and Shadowsocks. What TSPU does technically, why VLESS Reality with Vision survives, and what is next.
Kinopoisk, IVI, Okko, Match TV, and Channel One are geo-restricted to Russia. The Russian diaspora needs a VPN with a working Russian exit. What works.
OpenVPN is fingerprinted in 30 seconds. WireGuard is blocked in Russia, China, and Iran. Here are the protocols that still work in 2026, ranked by effectiveness against state-level DPI.
