Which Russian Websites Block Foreign IPs in 2026: A Measured List

Short answer: most Russian federal sites and banks open from abroad, but Rosreestr and EMIAS (Moscow's health portal) accept only Russian addresses, Gosuslugi opened from one of our two Moscow addresses and from none of the European ones, and Ozon, Wildberries, DNS and Aeroflot refused even Moscow: they turn away data-centre addresses altogether. The tables below cover 30 services, followed by what this means for a VPN.

How we measured

On 25 September 2026 we opened every site from nine data-centre addresses: two in Moscow, four in Europe, and one each in the US, Kazakhstan and Turkey. Each site was requested three times from each address, and the fourteen sites where a plain request is not enough were also loaded in a real Chromium browser. “Yes” means the site's normal page loaded. “No” means the site did not answer at all or showed a restriction page. We did not test logging in or payments, only whether the site opens.

Government services, taxes and banks

From one European address and from the US one, Gosuslugi did load, but instead of the portal it showed a notice asking to switch off the VPN and saying access was restricted. From the other three European addresses the site did not answer at all.

Shops, travel, post and video

What the sites show instead: Ozon says the connection seems to be missing and asks to switch off the VPN; Avito says access is restricted because of a problem with the IP; DNS returns “access to the site is forbidden”; Russian Post returns “access blocked” with HTTP 417; Wildberries shows a “suspicious activity” check; Aeroflot says access has been temporarily restricted by the site owner. Kinopoisk opens everywhere, but from some foreign addresses it warns that not all of the catalogue is available in your country. For streaming, see how to watch RuTube and VK Video from outside Russia.

Why the address matters more than the country

The most surprising result: the same site opens from one European address and refuses the next one. Gosuslugi opened from Kazakhstan and Turkey but not from Germany. Public procurement and Russian Railways accepted one European address out of four. Of our two Moscow addresses, Gosuslugi opened from only one. So these sites look beyond the country: at who owns the address (a hosting provider or a home broadband provider) and at whether VPN or suspicious traffic has been seen from it before. The same mechanism is behind IP reputation and CAPTCHAs elsewhere on the web, and it is why geolocation databases disagree about the same address.

The practical conclusion: “pick a server in the right country” guarantees nothing. What counts is the specific service tested from the specific address.

What a Russian IP address changes, and what it does not

• It helps where a site accepts only Russian addresses: Rosreestr, EMIAS, public procurement, T-Bank, Russian Post and Russian Railways tickets all opened from both Moscow addresses.
• It does not guarantee Gosuslugi: the portal opened from one Moscow data-centre address and not from the other.
• It does not help with Ozon, Wildberries, DNS and Aeroflot, and almost never with Avito: they refuse data-centre addresses, Moscow ones included. Those need a Russian home or mobile connection, and a VPN provider's addresses are in data centres.

Our PRO plan includes a server in Moscow, and it is the first of the two Moscow addresses in this test: Gosuslugi, Rosreestr, EMIAS and T-Bank opened from it; Ozon and DNS did not. If the service you need is in a “no” row, a Russian data-centre server will not open it. How the Russian exit works, and why abroad you should send all traffic through the tunnel rather than only foreign sites, is covered in VPN with a Russian IP address.

If the site you need does not open

1. 1Look at what the site actually shows. A page that talks about a VPN or restricted access is the site's decision, not a broken connection. If the site does not answer at all, check whether other sites load; a general connection problem is covered in VPN connected but no internet.
2. 2If a Russian bank's site shows a certificate error, that is the bank's certificate issued by the Russian national certificate authority, not your address; a VPN neither causes nor fixes it.
3. 3If an app asks you to turn off the VPN, the address is not the issue: the app sees the VPN connection itself. See why services detect a VPN.
4. 4If a site accepts only Russian addresses, you need a server in Russia; if it refuses Russian data-centre addresses too, what remains is a Russian home or mobile connection, for example a relative's, or the service's own support.