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Tor Browser is now accessible in Russia after a court ruiling

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According to data from the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies, and Mass Communication (Roskomnadzor) service for checking access restrictions to Internet sites or pages, the Tor Project has been unblocked in Russia.

On Friday, the site vanished from the registry where it had previously been listed.

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A TASS correspondent confirmed that access to the resource is no longer restricted for Russian users.

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The Tor browser operates on the onion routing principle.

It is a network of nodes that allows users to use the network anonymously and protect themselves from monitoring.

Tor is frequently used to gain access to the darknet.

Based on a court decision, Roskomnadzor previously restricted access to the Tor Project.

 

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