{"id":10693,"date":"2026-04-16T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/10693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:00:05","slug":"russia-escalates-internet-crackdown-says-curbs-are-temporary-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/10693\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia escalates internet crackdown, says curbs are temporary \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Russia escalates internet crackdown, says curbs are temporary \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ofjqU22ZSGg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRussia escalates internet crackdown, says curbs are temporary \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Kremlin said on Tuesday that internet \u200brestrictions, which it conceded had caused disruption to many Russians, were needed for security reasons, but that they \u200bwere \u200ctemporary in nature and would \u2060be lifted once it was safe to do so. Authorities shut \u200cdown the mobile internet in Moscow for nearly \u2060three weeks in March and regularly block it elsewhere across the world&#8217;s largest country, \u200bciting the risk of Ukrainian drones using \u200cit to guide attacks.<br \/>\n#Russia #internet #crackdown<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia escalates internet crackdown, says curbs are temporary \u2022 FRANCE 24 English The Kremlin said on Tuesday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5283,9310,22,23,20,21,650,5935,14722,5351,14723,2541,31,910,17,1571,14724,11028,14721,14725],"class_list":{"0":"post-10693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-crackdown","9":"tag-cybersecurity","10":"tag-france-24","11":"tag-france-24-english","12":"tag-france24","13":"tag-france24-english","14":"tag-infos","15":"tag-internet","16":"tag-internet-crackdown","17":"tag-kremlin","18":"tag-liberties","19":"tag-moscow","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-putin","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-security","24":"tag-virtual","25":"tag-vpn","26":"tag-vpns","27":"tag-website"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116415261787469479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}