The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, said that the authorities would not penalize those who use VPN services to bypass the blocking of Internet resources, but the use of such applications is not welcome either.

There will be absolutely no penalties for users. We are against it. Therefore, those who really need it will have such an opportunity, and will continue to have it, and will keep it. But, of course, this contradicts the policy of the state, when in principle they restrict access to some resources. I think this is a reasonable compromise.

Maksut Shadayev

He also commented on reports of possible intentions of the authorities to block YouTube.

Banning is the very last step. There is no need to close it, let's make sure that we have our own competitive platform. Therefore, closure in my understanding is the very last step, and it always has a bad effect on competitiveness. We clearly understand this.

We previously announced the release of the ReVanced app, which disables ads on YouTube.

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