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Faithful Rabbit Exuberant Piranha depends. I don't know the details of what's happening in Russia right now but it sounds like they've been adopting some of the same DPI gear/techniques China uses in which case a VPN or some other overlay network (tor, i2p, yggdrasil, whatever) is probably not going to work.
Icy Ocelot Exuberant Piranha Faithful Rabbit
I know a bit about what happens in RU for some reason. Some VPNs still work, tor works with the bridges and obfuscation, ssh-tunneling works. For talking to my friends Matrix just works as well.