# Servers in Russia
> Russia is outside every Western enforcement channel — Council of Europe cooperation ended in 2022 and neither DMCA nor DSA has force there. In exchange, Russian law applies in full, including mandatory SORM interception at the operator level. Choose it only when your threat model is specifically Western.
**Source:** https://incognitovps.com/servers/russia
**Updated:** 2026-08-13

## Legal dossier — Russia

| Claim | Instrument | Year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EU and US court orders have no enforcement path; MLAT cooperation suspended since 2022 | Council of Europe expulsion, 16 Mar 2022 — Russia ceased to be a party to CoE conventions | 2022 |
| US DMCA and EU DSA carry no legal force in Russian courts | Civil Code Part IV — domestic copyright procedure only | 2008 |
| Data-localisation duty applies to Russian citizens’ personal data | Federal Law 242-FZ on personal data localisation | 2015 |
| SORM lawful-interception infrastructure is mandatory for operators | Federal Law 374-FZ ("Yarovaya package") | 2016 |

## The trade-off

We publish this one straight because the honest version is the useful version: Russia removes Western legal reach and replaces it with Russian legal reach, including SORM interception obligations at the operator level. It is the right answer for a narrow threat model and the wrong answer for a general one. Assume network-level observation and encrypt accordingly.

## Facility

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Facility | MOW-2 · Butovo |
| City | Moscow |
| Coordinates | 55.7558, 37.6173 |
| Uplink | 10 Gbps per node |
| EU member state | No |
| Eyes alliance | No documented participation |
| Live since | 2022 |
| Looking glass | lg-mow.incognitovps.com |
| Test address | 185.132.51.10 |
| Network | MSK-IX + DATA-IX; transit via Rostelecom and RETN, direct Frankfurt path. |

## Measured latency

| Destination | Round trip |
| --- | --- |
| Frankfurt | 38 ms |
| Amsterdam | 42 ms |
| London | 47 ms |
| New York | 121 ms |
| Singapore | 174 ms |

## Pricing here

| Product | From |
| --- | --- |
| Linux VPS | $4.00/mo |
| Dedicated servers | $47.00/mo |
| Windows RDP | $9.50/mo |

## Best for

- Workloads whose adversary is exclusively Western
- CIS-region latency
- Regional mirrors

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Russia a good place to host a server?

Russia lies outside every Western enforcement channel — Council of Europe cooperation ended in 2022 and neither DMCA nor DSA has force there. In exchange, Russian law applies in full, including mandatory SORM interception at the operator level. Choose it only when your threat model is specifically Western. The trade-off is set out in full on this page rather than omitted.

### Does Russia have mandatory data retention?

The legal dossier on this page lists the applicable Russian statutes, each with its citation and year.

### Is Russia in Five Eyes or the EU?

Russia has no documented participation in any Eyes intelligence-sharing tier and is not an EU member state, so EU judicial-cooperation instruments do not reach it.

### What latency should I expect from Moscow?

Measured round-trip to Frankfurt is 38 ms, to London 47 ms, to Amsterdam 42 ms, to New York 121 ms, and to Singapore 174 ms. A looking glass is published at lg-mow.incognitovps.com.


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