Protonmail is blocked in Russia

The reason is the same as with Startmail - anonymous users send messages about false minilations from the postal service.

Another secure postal service was under locking - the Swiss Protonmail. At the moment, the domains and IP addresses of the service are included in the register of prohibited sites by the decision of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation No. 27-31-2020/ID769-20:

The fact that access to the secure postal service has been blocked was already reported by Roskomnadzor and the FSB.

The FSB Center for Public Relations (COOs) states that on the basis of the submission of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, together with Roskomnadzor, from January 29, 2020, access to the territory of the Russian Federation to the information resources of the foreign service Protonmail.com, because with its help, anonymous users “continue criminal activity”, sending false messages about minilations.

According to special services, more than 800 objects in four regions of Russiareceived a letter with threats of explosions from addresses on Protonmail, including courts, schools, kindergartens and hospitals.

Roskomnadzor, in turn, reports :

“This postal service was used by attackers both in 2019 and, especially actively, in January 2020 for sending under the guise of reliable information on mass mining of objects in the Russian Federation.

The company responded with a categorical refusal to repeated information on the provision of information to include information to the register of information distribution on the Internet. Information about the administrators of the mailboxes used to send threats is not provided. ”

Some Russian users have already complained about the inaccessibility of the Protonmail.com website, but there is also information that somewhere it is loaded at all without any visible problems.

Recall that on the basis of exactly the same absurd arguments the other day, the Dutch secure postal service Startmail was blocked . Moreover, in its statement, the company announced the unwillingness of the Russian authorities to fight the luminifiers, based on European legislation, and there have never been attempted from the security forces or other representatives of the Russian state to reach a dialogue with the service to establish the individuals of the attackers.

It is worth noting that Russian law enforcement officers have long adopted the practice of bravura statements on the establishment of sources of such mailings, but mining both continued and continue .

The effectiveness of such actions could be seen just recently, when immediately after blocking Startmail, false bombing letters have already fallen with Protonmail. You do not need to be a nostradamus to foresee-this process can result in endless running for various kinds of services with which Russian security forces for some reason refuse to cooperate, but are ready to score with new URLs and IP all their register of prohibited information, while violating all possible legal procedures and regulations. Apparently, law enforcement officers are not yet interested in the establishment of true perpetrators.