No big surprise here. Dictatorships hate human rights, chief among them privacy. As the Russian news agency Interfax reported in December 2024, Russia had previously banned 197 VPN apps. Now a Russian journalist has reportedly tallied another 47 requests. Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency for monitoring (and censoring) mass media is tightening the screws on its war to keep the Russian population away from tech that could prevent the Russian gover…