俄罗斯在油气价格上升带来的财政缓解以及美国与欧洲关系紧张导致乌克兰支持面临压力下，似乎在地缘上受益，但俄罗斯安全机构的高压做法正让国内情绪紧张。3月6日，莫斯科和圣彼得堡先后封锁移动网络，持续了近三周后才部分恢复，当局以安全为由解释，民众却担心这是与全球互联网切断的“防火墙”预备步骤。

网络中断带来了实质性的经济与社会摩擦：每个失去服务的日子，俄罗斯企业的损失高达10亿卢布（约1200万美元），从停车支付到外卖配送、打车预约等日常行为都被打乱，凸显“互联网已成为必需品”。Telegram月活跃用户约9400万，也被重点打击，VPN同样受压，克里姆林宫试图引导用户转向含监控功能的Max；而列瓦达—新新闻社调查显示三分之三以上受访者对战争感到厌倦，显示“战争与日常并行”正在转向明显政治不满。

这一行动同样冲击了亲战传播生态和精英圈子，因为包括高层官员在内的许多人依赖Telegram，许多亲乌克兰战争博主月入可达150万卢布且主要靠广告变现。原定4月1日实施的封锁提前执行后，冲击加剧，曾为支持政权发声的博主伊利亚·雷梅斯洛在3月17日于Telegram呼吁普京下台并被立法性入院于3月19日，此举强化了国家在“控制与合法性”之间的权衡代价，且与俄罗斯试图建立可控网络的长期目标一致。

Russia may be gaining economically from higher oil and gas prices and a more cautious Western posture, yet the state’s own security institutions are now generating domestic backlash through a harsher domestic strategy. Mobile internet shutdowns in Moscow and St Petersburg began on March 6, lasted almost three weeks, and were only partly reversed, with officials justifying them as security measures against external threats.

The outages produced measurable economic and social costs: each day without service cost Russian businesses up to 1bn roubles (about $12m), while routine activities such as parking payments, food delivery coordination, and taxi booking were disrupted, underscoring how indispensable mobile internet has become. Telegram, with a 94m monthly reach, was singled out along with VPNs, and the Kremlin pushed users toward Max while a Levada and Novaya Gazeta poll found three-quarters describing mood as war weariness, signaling a shift away from the old balance between wartime operations and normal life toward visible discontent.

The pressure also hit the pro-war information ecosystem and elites, since Telegram was used even by top officials and bloggers who can earn up to 1.5m roubles a month mostly from ads. A ban originally due on April 1 was moved forward; the campaign’s depth is reflected in the case of pro-Kremlin blogger Ilya Remeslo, who on March 17 called for Putin to resign on Telegram and was then hospitalized on March 19, highlighting the regime’s growing trade-off between security control and regime legitimacy.

Source: Russia wants to limit contact with the outside world

Subtitle: A recent internet blackout reflects the Kremlin’s nervousness

Dateline: 3月 26, 2026 05:35 上午