How Russia reins in the internet by blocking websites and isolating it from the rest of the world

An activist holds a poster reading "For Russia without censorship. Orwell wrote a dystopia, not an instruction manual" during a picket against internet limitations in front of The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, prior to consider the third and final reading of a bill, criminalising the search of "extremist materials" in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo)