Russian users of Roblox — the gaming platform unblocked in Russia on June 10 — have lost access to in-game chat.
According to msk1, a Moscow-based news outlet, the platform’s website now displays a message to Russian users: “You can only view system messages. Chat is not available in your region.
Yekaterina Mizulina, the head of the Safe Internet League, said she expects the chat to be restored for Russian users soon.
“I think the chat and voice chat will come back too,” she wrote in her Telegram channel. “We just need to be patient and wait a little. Roblox has significantly changed its operating rules and introduced age verification — this is gradually becoming available in different countries around the world. We were only expecting the unblocking by the end of summer, but everything happened much faster.”
Russia blocked Roblox in early December 2025. Roskomnadzor, the country’s federal censor, said that Roblox “is popular among pedophiles who make contact with minors directly in the game’s chats and then take those relationships into real life.” As a result, the agency added, “children in the game are subjected to sexual harassment, have intimate photos solicited from them, and are pressured into committing lewd acts and acts of violence.”
On June 9, the Ministry of Digital Development announced that it had reached an agreement with Roblox on the conditions necessary to protect the rights and interests of Russian users. The following day, Roblox was unblocked in Russia.
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