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Russia is preparing a new wave of restrictions on tools used to bypass internet censorship, budgeting a record 60 billion rubles over three years for traffic filtering, alongside plans to raise mobile costs for VPN users and expand FSB oversight of corporate networks. Separately, Roskomnadzor banned two dystopian novels by author Olga Ptitseva, and researchers describe a broader phenomenon of 'digital oblivion' in which the loss of online records is contributing to public amnesia about events the government finds inconvenient.