Russia has spent a decade trying to stop people from bypassing internet censorship. Now it plans to spend nearly 60 billion rubles over three years on traffic filtering.

Russia is preparing a new wave of restrictions on tools used to bypass internet blocks. The budget for the next three years includes a record 60 billion rubles for traffic filtering. The Digital Development Ministry wants to make mobile internet much more expensive for VPN users, and there are plans to put companies’ corporate networks under strict oversight by the Federal Security Service (FSB).…