Most popular VPNs were getting blocked here at the same pace as in Iran, official websites to get them are banned too. Some editions claimed this move is about making Apple\Google restrict them on respective appstores by themselves because siloviki can't deny getting these apps without fucking up the whole platform. And they don't want to bring unnecessary discomfort to agreeable masses who use these markets to download apps daily.

Corporate and goverment networks won't be affected, obviously. Troll farms too. Only a minority of those not invested enough to find other loopholes. I don't see if it matters to those outside of Russia. For locals? Not a surprise, really, snd I don't feel they'd block youtube and telegram, both are still availiable to get information if one wants it.

Timing of that act doesn't say anything either. They want to sanitize the internet before presidential elections, and do it that way? It doesn't make sense. It won't affect those who already downloaded such apps, or those using other sources. Seems like a coincidence that this part of closing the iron dome happened to fall there, not the first, not the last. Or, equally possible, elderly officials don't know how it works kek.