Gmail and Skype faces ban in Russia. And the rest of the email and IM services Bashny.Net

Foreign Internet email services and instant messaging will be required, along with Russian companies, provide storage of data on the activity of its users in six months and certainly in Russia. This follows from the text of "anti-terrorism" law, which the State Duma finally adopted on Tuesday in the third reading. According to experts, if the foreign company will refuse to carry out the new law, access to their services in Russia can be locked. Blockquote>
Based on the experience of interaction with the "Chinese comrades", Google does not hand over their users. Skype (Microsoft) - rents. Yahoo - also interacts with the Chinese. It is unclear what will make Facebook (they have a messaging service).

Work, non-blocking and uncensored alternative to Skype, there may - Tox or TorChat, although Tox until damp, and the situation with TorChat not clear if the nodes are blocked Torah.

What to do with email-s not yet clear. As I understand it, can potentially be locked all the non-Russian email-services. What is in this situation, an alternative for communicating with non-IT people (to make it simple and easy to use).?

Social Networking - perhaps, Diaspora would uncensored and non-blocking.

On turn - lock Torah (Chinese comrades managed to do it) and VPN-RH, as Without this, all the bans are meaningless.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/220429/