Moscow Imposes Internet 'Whitelist' as Outages Drive People Toward Pagers and Paper Maps

Moscow is enforcing a government-backed internet 'whitelist' that restricts mobile access to approved sites amid outages, pushing residents to use pagers, landlines, and printed atlases; the move follows a new law allowing providers to suspend service on the FSB’s request and fits Russia’s broader push toward a sovereign internet, with officials also tightening blocks on foreign messaging apps.