The Russian regulator Roskomnadzor has said that most large-scale VPN services have expressed their willingness to comply with a new law that came into effect on November 1.
Quoted by Vedomosti, its head Alexander Zharov said that there are 25-30 proxy and VPN services that are popular in the country and there are no misunderstandings.
He added that while there are also hundreds of thousands of small VPNs, the law is not primarily aimed at them.
Roskomnadzor announced at the end of last month that it was completing the testing of a new system of interaction with large internet companies. They included Kaspersky Lab, Opera Software AS, Mail.Ru and Yandex, with Rambler, Sputnik and cameleo.ru among several others also willing to take part in the tests.
The law requires VPN services and anonymisers to connect to the information systems with data on banned sites in Russia and block access to them. Failure to do so could result in the services themselves being blocked.
There are currently around 10 million people in Russia that access VPN services.
As previously reported by Broadband TV News, the prospect of a ban on VPNs prompted Google and Facebook to seek talks with the Russian authorities earlier this year.
