Press service of the President of Russia The topic of the issue is the blitzkrieg of the Russian authorities against VPN and why business is dissatisfied with it Having banned all uncontrolled services and instant messengers, the Russian authorities are taking the next logical step - they are starting to fight VPNs that allow them to bypass these blocks.

The head of InfoWatch and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, Natalya Kasperskaya, apologized to RKN for her post in which she linked Friday’s outage of banks and “half of Runet services” with the authorities’ attempts to block VPN.

OPEC+ is likely to vote today to increase oil production, four Reuters interlocutors at the organization told Reuters. But the decision will largely be of only a symbolic nature, since the key participants of the cartel - primarily Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Iraq - will not be physically able to increase supplies in the context of the US and Israeli war against Iran and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The situation is aggravated by other members of the alliance.