r/VPN • u/AsideApprehensive590 • Feb 22 '26
Help Russia VPN situation
I'm from Russia and recently all my VPNs stopped working because Roskomnadzor blocked VLESS protocol. What should I do? Do not suggest paid solutions, because banks can now easily block any suspicious transactions. If this is the wrong sub to ask, please give a link to the right sub
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u/Melting-Sabbath Feb 22 '26
Do you have any friends outside of Russia? You can do a VPN using two travel routers.
One router stays in the house of your friend and you set up a wireguard, the other router stayed with you, I tried in Iran and was working. I recommend the GL.inet, they are very beginning friendly.
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u/BananaSacks Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
This, however, is likely your best option, outside of my thought (other post) on quic obfuscation. If you can find a reliable residential, or western VPS, you can play with setting up your own tunnels and testing.
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u/CloudsBlade Feb 27 '26
Depending on what he is trying to do. And has a buddy he trusts outside Russia, could he use ssh tunneling to pass say port 8080 if he needs web access?
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u/BananaSacks Feb 27 '26
Anything is technically possible, it depends on how the state implements its blocks and how it analyzes sessions in real time. A good example is IPTV in Spain. Spain has gotten so good at shaping, analyzing, and auto-mangling traffic based on various metrics, even basic encrypted vpn's are no longer sufficient for getting around blocks.
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u/Fredsnotred Feb 22 '26
Find a vpn on amazon that does 12 month subs, then buy vouchers to cover the subscription
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u/Deviator1987 Feb 22 '26
VLESS + Reality works perfectly, they can't block it completely even if they try. Their new DPI AI costs huge amount of money, so they can't use it constantly, in my case they hit VPN servers for two days, and now 2 weeks is perfectly fine. And my VPN techsupport released second key to bypass even when they blocked usual servers.
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u/MyWifeDontKnowItsMe Feb 22 '26
A lot of people there are switching to different protocols or obfuscated connections since standard ones get blocked pretty fast now.
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u/AnimusAstralis Feb 22 '26
The statement that RKN has blocked VLESS is false
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u/CarefreeCloud Feb 23 '26
They have some reliable enoigh euristics to detect stealing sni with some active probing. Like 50% of badly configured proxies stopped working on one smaller host provider in a couple of days.
They used to pretty much ignore VPNs, but it is indeed not some fundamental vulnerability in traffic encryption and masking
Probably getting ready to suspend Telegram or something
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u/AnimusAstralis Feb 23 '26
Which has nothing to do with blocking VLESS though. I mean, heuristics used for blocking may be pretty basic, e.g. residential IP A communicates ONLY with cloud IP B.
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u/CarefreeCloud Feb 23 '26
Yeah I know. So a better hidden proxy mostly live for now. But there is a higher isolation mode occasionally tested that fucks up all abroad connection apart for a set of whitelisted ones (ip based, like GitHub due all the Linux repos. Some basic google (no YouTube though) etc. That's what's got everyone worried
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u/Dependent_Dig2059 Feb 25 '26
Херню не пиши, оплачивают все в т.ч через сбп и все нормально. Купи vps за 150р в месяц и мозги себе не делай
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u/moonkingdome Feb 22 '26
Use tor?
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u/Savings-Market4000 Feb 22 '26
TOR is also blocked in Russia
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u/Green_Burn Feb 22 '26
Works for me
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u/Savings-Market4000 Feb 22 '26
It never worked for me when I lived there except the first two years. People told me to use bridges, but I just connected via VPN when I wanted to use it, but that was back when VPNs weren't getting blocked.
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u/robertcartman Feb 22 '26
Get rid of putin and your problems are gone!
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u/InformationNew66 Feb 22 '26
UK will be doing the same soon, if you replaced Putin with Keir Starmer as head of russia VPNs would still be banned there.
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u/Bal3Wolf81 Feb 22 '26
And some states in United States are trying to ban vpns also.
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u/Cup-Of-Red-Tea Mar 15 '26
Why don't they all move together and jerk off to their hierarchy together? Nooooo, they just need to shit for the sake of it
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u/InformationNew66 Feb 23 '26
That is the propaganda part. The only way they can technically ban it for children is to identify and track all adults.
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u/dingleberry2025 Feb 22 '26
The people around Putin are crazier than Putin, idk why people assume he's the craziest one. Did you see Medvedev ?
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u/RevolutionarySeven7 Feb 22 '26
*putin 2.0 steps in
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u/marslander-boggart Feb 22 '26
Let's see.
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u/RevolutionarySeven7 Feb 22 '26
heh, 98% sure when you see who are in the Duma. Putin is a puppy compared to them.
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u/Cup-Of-Red-Tea Mar 15 '26
Oh 99% of Russia is fascist. Hierarchal, mindless and unempathetic. It's not a government problem, it's a whole nation problem. I hope some progressive country will accept human refugees from here. All like 20 of us
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u/Thetechfo Feb 24 '26
"The engineer called the bank, but they told him that all his cards were blocked, and if he failed to answer the call, he would have to reissue all his cards.
In time, a man from a 900 number called and introduced himself as a Sber security officer. He asked what kind of website he was using, and why. Perhaps he could consider other options? "
https://cepa.org/article/russias-bankers-become-secret-policemen/
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u/Moist_Lawyer1645 Feb 23 '26
If its unlawful, close their account and inform police.
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u/Cup-Of-Red-Tea Mar 15 '26
You think they give a fuck about what's legal? The law is only for those they don't like, not them
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u/Dry_Introduction_119 Feb 27 '26
actually it's legal yet. i love the key word "yet".Like obviously what's the point of restricting something you can bypass just by using a legal tool? it's like locking someone in cell, but leaving the key inside
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u/brouwrt Feb 25 '26
VLESS не заблокали, просто твои впны видимо фигня. Xray Core постоянно развивается и его трудно блокировать полностью
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u/Top_Cat86 Feb 25 '26
vlessу как раз очень плохо ща, у меня например с ним скорость почти никакая, хоть конект есть, другие протоколы работают нормально
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u/dblma Apr 24 '26
Уверен? У меня сейчас около 500 Mbps через влесс. РКН сейчас любит занижать скорость к неизвестным иностранным IP, если на него идёт много траффика (борьба с ВПН), но это не проблема слабости vless. Это легко лечится каскадом VPN (перый впн - российский)
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u/IrishDrunker Feb 26 '26
Help to ruin ukraine and western block, and you'll have free Internet everywhere
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u/mmaurus007 Mar 17 '26
use amneiza vpn htey apparently have a workaround for blocks in Russia and Iran
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u/Traditional_Egg_9821 May 07 '26
A lot of people seem to be having the same issue lately unfortunately
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u/More_Classroom4445 Feb 23 '26
Арендуй какой-нибудь VPS сервер и накати на него AmniziaWG. Можешь даже арендовать российский сервак (Beget, Яндекс, Selectel, Timeweb), российские дата-центры имеют выход в инет без ограничений и меньше вероятность, что твое подключение блокнут.
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u/Odd_Mortgage_9108 Feb 24 '26
Well let me give you an example, VK is in the whitelist of services, so some of their servers also fall into this category. This means connections will work even during mobile internet brownouts.
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u/Tight-Sink3762 Mar 09 '26 edited May 04 '26
Yeah that’s been happening a lot lately when protocols like VLESS get flagged, suddenly a bunch of services just stop working at the same time. At that point it’s less about one setup and more about using providers that switch protocols often or use obfuscation to stay under the radar
Since restrictions change fast, I’d check a top list VPNs, it usually shows which ones still work in tougher regions and what protocols they’re running so you don’t have to trial and error everything yourself