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Stack Exchange recently announced that they are not blocking Russia. However, is the converse also true—that Russia is not blocking Stack Exchange?
(I'm asking this because if Russia is not blocking the Stack Exchange network, then that means we could spread information to Russians via, e.g., a thread called "Info on Ukraine")
So, how can I find out whether Stack Overflow (and the Stack Exchange network, more generally) is blocked in Russia?
No, Russia hasn't blocked Stack Overflow, nor has SE blocked Russian traffic.
As for finding out what's blocked from where, I suppose you could set up a VPN that's based in Russia and try for yourself.
A quick search resulted in this website, that can check if a site is blocked from Russia:
https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinrussia/
It says Stack Overflow is still accessible from Vladivostok
I suppose you could set up a VPN that's based in Russia and try for yourself. - if you do this, make sure to do it in a sandbox; see the node-ipc drama.
Mar 21, 2022 at 17:46
No, Russia has not blocked access to the Stack Exchange network (it does not seem there are plans to either - the network is neither a media outlet nor has it taken any actions that would make the authorities to want it).
At the time of this writing, the post should be proof enough that it has not, but if one is curious enough, they can check the publicly available list of resources blocked in Russia which is maintained by the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications ("better" known as RosKomNadzor).
