Opera VPN service has announced that it has stopped working

application The Opera VPN for iOS and Android will stop working on April 30, the service said in an official statement.

All users of the paid Opera Gold service for a year package will be given free access to the SurfEasy Ultra VPN packages ; owners of other Opera VPN are promised an 80% discount on the application. For what reasons the decision was made to close Opera VPN, the statement does not specify.

After the Tagansky District Court upheld the claim of Roskomnadzor demanding to block Telegram in Russia , Opera VPN topped the rating of user requests in the Russian app store App Stor e. At the same time, the head of the international human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov, in his Telegram channel called on users to be careful with Opera VPN , since “they cooperate with the authorities and in general may close soon.”

Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit to block Telegram after the messenger refused to provide the FSB with the keys to decrypt user messages. Representatives of the messenger said that the FSB requirement was technically impossible to fulfill due to the functions of “secret chats” and “cloud chats”. Roskomnadzor said that representatives of the messenger were “being disingenuous.”

In May 2017, another Opera project , Opera Software AS , provided Roskomnadzor with the data necessary to register as an “information dissemination organizer.” Inclusion in the registry means that the service must provide data of its users at the request of intelligence agencies.