On November 29, Roskomnadzor said that Roblox, one of the world’s largest online gaming platforms, contains a large amount of material that, in the regulator’s view, could harm children’s moral development. The agency also said the platform creates conditions for unlawful acts and acknowledged that its internal moderation does not provide complete safety.
The regulator added that it had previously sent Roblox demands to restrict access to prohibited content. In 2025, in particular, the service complied with an order to remove three items that Roskomnadzor described as propaganda of “non-traditional sexual relations,” and on July 10 the agency reported that access to them had been blocked.
The latest debate was also fueled by criminal cases. In Yekaterinburg, Alexander Trofimov was sentenced to 15 years in a maximum-security penal colony: investigators say he met a 12-year-old boy through Roblox and later committed the crime. The court also ordered him to pay 450,000 rubles in moral damages; he did not admit guilt.
Another widely discussed case came from St. Petersburg, where a 13-year-old schoolgirl was suspected of killing her mother. After that, Telegram channels linked to law enforcement claimed that the girl had allegedly rehearsed a similar scenario in Roblox. However, Fontanka reported that her Roblox page had long been abandoned and that the old videos posted there were ordinary clips from a virtual world.
Oleg Matveychev, deputy head of the State Duma committee on information policy, said that if investigators establish that the game played a decisive role, this could become grounds to ban its circulation.
Moscow Region children’s ombudswoman Ksenia Mishonova and several other Russian officials also said blocking the service was possible. Against that backdrop, the Interior Ministry reported nearly 1,000 cases of fraud in computer games and said Roblox tops its internal “anti-rating.” Roblox, for its part, says it is strengthening age checks, limiting messaging for users under 13, and cooperating with law enforcement.