Deputy Head of the OP Commission on Mass Media Alexander Malkevich: the TOR hydra needs to be defeated TOR has been blocked in Russia. This is reported by the OONI Explorer resource. Network blocking researcher ValdikSS confirms blocking on the networks of the largest providers and mobile operators, noting that “all or almost all IP addresses of known nodes, including some bridges, are unavailable. The fact that the TOR hydra needs to be defeated does not raise doubts among any reasonable person, says Alexander Malkevich, First Deputy Chairman of the Commission for the Development of the Information Society, Mass Media and Mass Communications of the Public Chamber of Russia. In his opinion, the issue is that this problem itself has been hushed up for too long. “Moreover, according to the data that we have in the Public Chamber, for many years there was a conscious resistance to the control of