1 October 2018 something important will happen. Russian internet providers are going to join Yarova law, which already in action since 1st july on russian social media networks and email services. Yarova law requires russian internet providers and servers owners to save entire traffic of russians, constantly expanding the time it will be kept on servers.
Since 1st july more than 500 cases against internet extremism were created based on vkontakte posts, likes, reposts of "offensive" hatespeech, russia has this law called "282". Which is literally a law against religious and racial prejudice.
In russia people are sitting in prison for liking posts expressing hatespeech for muslims. And denying holocast, expressing anti-semitism as well. Even reposts and likes count for government structures.
But most importantly people get arrested for posting swastika or Hitler pictures on the internet, and even when you don't support the natsoc ideology:
https://archive.fo/oHjtN
https://archive.fo/lgBnm
Putin also promised to analyze traffic for anything illegal, so internet traffic globally is going to be scanned for TOR, VPN usage and wrongthink by scanning the keywords. Like "bomb", "hitler", "holocaust" and so on.
Even piracy is highly illegal in russia. Globally a lot of internet websites contained wrongthink or copyrighted material are already banned. So you aren't accessing them without any kind of vpn or tor.
Putin Told That 6,000 Pirate Sites Have Been Blocked in Three Years
https://archive.fo/G9hxq
VPNs, proxies and Tor are illegal to use in Russia
https://archive.fo/CKeCO
Archive of a page in screenshots (its a shitty archive, i know, but readable):
https://archive.fo/NS0fQ
A lot of VPNs still leave out transparent traffic for providers, including all data and pictures, so i guess you wouldn't want to uPost too long. Click here to view the full text.