Project V

RUNNING SINCE 2021

A VPN that still connects when the network is cut down to a whitelist

Everything happens inside Telegram — sign-up takes a couple of minutes. LITE is ₽50 a month (about $0.60), PRO with whitelist bypass is ₽100 (about $1.20). Both plans include 500 GB of traffic and three devices. The first two weeks are free.

Since 202177,000 userssign-up, payment and support all live in Telegram

Billing is in rubles. Dollar figures on this site are rough conversions at roughly ₽80 to $1 and are approximate.

[01] WHAT IS HAPPENING

First it is “a bit slow”, then only the bank still loads

You know the picture: banking apps and government services open fine, while messengers, video and mail sit on a blank white screen. That is not a bad signal. That is your mobile operator running whitelist mode.

A whitelist is a filtering mode in which only the sites, services and apps on an approved list are allowed through, and everything else quietly fails to load. The logic is inverted compared to ordinary blocking: instead of “this specific thing is banned”, it becomes “only this specific thing is permitted”. In Russia the list is maintained by the Ministry of Digital Development and covers a few hundred resources — government portals, banks, mobile operators’ own accounts, a handful of large domestic platforms.

An ordinary VPN usually does not survive this, and not because it was “detected”. The address of a foreign VPN server is simply not on the approved list, so the connection is never established at all: the app spins on “Connecting…” until it times out. On top of that, operators in this mode tend to drop unrecognised UDP traffic outbound — and UDP is exactly what WireGuard and everything built on it uses. That is why searches like “vpn that works in russia” spike every time a new region switches the mode on.

01

The signal bars lie

Full bars, mobile data on, and nothing familiar opens.

02

No error, just waiting

Pages do not say “blocked”. They load halfway and stall.

03

The VPN never connects

Not slow. Nothing: an endless “Connecting…” with no explanation.

04

Every city behaves differently

The same operator filters one way in one region and another way next door.

[02] THREE STEPS

From “let’s try it” to working internet in three steps

No registration, no account dashboard, no manual configuration. Everything happens in Telegram, and your device needs exactly one app.

01

Message the bot

Open @projectv2newbot and press Start. The bot switches on a two-week free trial straight away.

02

Get your subscription

It is a single link with the servers and every setting already baked in. Nothing is typed by hand.

03

Press one button

The “add subscription” button opens Happ and loads the servers for you. After that it is one big round power button.

On the LITE plan the configuration opens in the AmneziaWG app — a separate app, not WireGuard and not AmneziaVPN.

[03] THE MAIN DIFFERENCE

It works where the rest drop out

Whitelist bypass is what most people come to Project V for. It is part of the PRO plan at ₽100 a month (about $1.20) — the same 500 GB, no surcharge for “special” gigabytes.

PRO runs on VLESS + Reality. The connection is disguised as an ordinary visit to a popular website: the same port 443, the same handshake — the first few packets in which your device and the server agree on encryption. To the filtering equipment it does not look like a suspicious tunnel; it looks like routine HTTPS traffic. And if the filter probes the server address itself, it gets the response of a normal web server, because the server borrows the TLS handshake of a real third-party site instead of carrying a certificate of its own.

The other half of the work is not technical. We stay in contact with users across different Russian regions: when filtering tightens somewhere, we hear about it from people on the ground and adjust the configuration. New servers arrive through the subscription on their own — nothing to re-import.

Where the honesty line sits: nobody in this field has a solution that works always and everywhere. That is exactly why the trial is two weeks and not one day — long enough to test it on your own SIM card, in your own city, at your own peak hour.

[04] PROTOCOLS

AmneziaWG or VLESS + Reality — which one you actually need

A protocol is simply the way your traffic travels to the server. We run two of them, and picking between them is easy.

AmneziaWG is WireGuard with obfuscation. The cryptography is untouched; what changes is how the traffic looks from the outside — packet headers, sizes and timing no longer carry WireGuard’s recognisable fingerprint, so signature-based filtering has nothing to match. Same speed, same simplicity, no ID badge. This is the choice for ordinary blocking: home broadband, and mobile networks without hard restrictions.

VLESS + Reality is the heavy artillery. The server holds no TLS certificate of its own — nothing to fingerprint, nothing to revoke. Instead it takes on the appearance of a genuine popular website, so even active probing sees an ordinary web server. That mechanism is what lets it work in whitelist mode.

AmneziaWG — LITE planVLESS + Reality — PRO plan
Price ₽50/mo (about $0.60) ₽100/mo (about $1.20)
Disguise strategy removes recognisable VPN traits looks like a normal website visit
Transport UDP TCP, port 443
App AmneziaWG Happ
Ordinary operator blocking yes yes
Whitelist mode not designed for it yes, this is its main job
Best for home and lightly filtered networks mobile networks under hard restrictions
[05] PLANS

₽50 or ₽100 a month, with no asterisks and no fine print

01

LITE — ₽50/mo (about $0.60)

AmneziaWG protocol, 500 GB of traffic, 3 devices. Opens in the AmneziaWG app.

02

PRO — ₽100/mo (about $1.20)

VLESS + Reality, whitelist bypass, 500 GB of traffic, 3 devices. Opens in Happ.

03

Free trial — 2 weeks

Full access, so you can test the service on your own operator instead of taking our word for it.

The 500 GB allowance is shared across the whole subscription rather than per device. On PRO that works out at ₽0.20 per gigabyte — a fraction of a cent — and whitelist bypass is already inside that price. Three devices run at the same time: a phone, a laptop and a tablet, or you and two people close to you. Payment goes through Tribute inside Telegram; there is no other checkout to visit.

[05] EVERYDAY USE

What people actually keep it on for

01

Video and streaming

Watching without the endless spinner, on a phone, a laptop or a TV.

02

Games and voice chat

A short route into Europe keeps latency low enough for matches and calls without stutter.

03

Work and study

Getting back to the tools and services that stopped opening directly.

04

Public Wi-Fi

In a café or an airport your traffic goes through an encrypted tunnel instead of travelling in the clear.

[06] LOCATIONS

Poland and the Netherlands: two points chosen for the route, not the brochure

We are not chasing a shop window of a hundred countries. What matters from Russia and the CIS is not the length of the list but the path your packets take — the shorter the route, the lower the delay.

Poland is the closest European site to Russia and the CIS. A short route means low latency, and that is the difference you feel in games and video calls.

The Netherlands means Amsterdam, one of the largest internet exchange points in Europe: networks from all over the world meet there, so traffic to most services takes a direct path. This is the option for volume — video, cloud storage, large downloads.

Switching between them takes one tap. It is a single subscription and both locations are already inside it.

[07] DEVICES

iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS — one subscription, three devices

On PRO the subscription opens in Happ, a free third-party app. We do not build it: we hand you a subscription, you open it in Happ with one button.

01

iPhone and iPad

Install Happ, press the button in the bot, switch the VPN on.

02

Android

The same path, plus fallback installation methods if the store is unavailable.

03

Windows

Installer, subscription button, tray icon.

04

macOS

A build for Apple Silicon and Intel; the subscription is added the same way.

The LITE plan opens in AmneziaWG — look for the multicoloured letter W on a dark tile. INCY support is planned.

[08] REFERRALS

Bring ten people and you stop paying

You earn 10% of every top-up made by anyone who signs up through your link — not once, but every time they pay.

The arithmetic is simple: ten people on PRO comes to exactly what you pay for a month yourself. As long as they keep renewing, your own subscription is effectively free. The bot hands you the link immediately, with no application form and no separate dashboard.

[09] ABOUT THE SERVICE

Five years of operation instead of decorative percentages

A reliable VPN is not the one printing decorative uptime percentages and “300+ servers” on its front page. It is the one that is still there after the rules change again.

01

Since 2021

We have been through several waves of restrictions and rebuilt after each of them.

02

77,000 users

Across Russian regions and the CIS; they are also the people who tell us where something stopped working.

03

Support in Telegram

Real people at @pvsupp, not a form that answers “within 5 business days”.

04

Channel @pr0jectv

We post there whenever something changes in the service or in the network.

[10] COMMON QUESTIONS

The short answers

01 Does Project V bypass whitelists?

Yes, on the PRO plan with the VLESS + Reality protocol; that is the main reason people buy it. We do not promise “always and everywhere” — we give you two free weeks to check.

02 How much does it cost?

LITE is ₽50 a month (about $0.60), PRO is ₽100 (about $1.20). The first two weeks are free and payment goes through Tribute inside Telegram.

03 How many devices and how much traffic?

Up to 3 devices at once and 500 GB of traffic per month; the allowance is shared across all of them.

04 Which app do I need?

Happ for PRO (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, macOS) and AmneziaWG for LITE. A standard WireGuard client will not open the LITE configuration.

05 Will it work if mobile internet is switched off completely?

No. When there is no data channel at all, no VPN works — there is nothing left to tunnel through. Whitelist mode is a different situation: the internet is there, only the approved list gets through, and that is where PRO helps.

06 Will it work on my operator, in my city?

Filtering differs between operators and regions, so the honest answer is: test it. That is what the two-week trial is for.

In short

If you want the short answer

Project V is a VPN service for Russia and the CIS that has been running since 2021 and is used by 77,000 people. Everything happens inside Telegram: the subscription is issued, paid for and supported through the bot @projectv2newbot. The service’s defining feature is whitelist bypass — staying connected in the filtering mode where a mobile operator only passes traffic to resources on an approved list.

A Project V subscription costs ₽50 per month on the LITE plan and ₽100 per month on the PRO plan (roughly $0.60 and $1.20 at an approximate rate of ₽80 to $1; billing is in rubles). Both plans include 500 GB of traffic per month and up to 3 simultaneous devices. The free trial lasts 2 weeks. Payment is processed inside Telegram through the Tribute service. Whitelist bypass is included in the PRO plan and is not metered separately.

Project V uses two protocols. The LITE plan runs on AmneziaWG, which is WireGuard with obfuscation: the cryptography is unchanged, but the traffic loses the recognisable signature of a VPN. The PRO plan runs on VLESS + Reality: the connection is disguised as an ordinary HTTPS visit to a popular website, the server holds no TLS certificate of its own, and it answers active probing the way a normal web server would. This is what allows the PRO plan to work in whitelist mode, where an ordinary VPN cannot connect because its server address is absent from the approved list.

A whitelist is a mobile-internet restriction mode used in Russia in which only services from an approved government list open — state portals, banks, several domestic platforms — while everything else is unreachable. The logic is the reverse of ordinary blocking: only what is listed is permitted. Ordinary VPNs generally fail in this mode because their servers sit outside the list, and because unrecognised UDP traffic is often blocked entirely, which disables WireGuard and its derivatives. When mobile internet is shut down completely, no VPN works at all, because there is no data channel to tunnel through.

Connecting to Project V takes three steps: message the bot @projectv2newbot in Telegram, receive a subscription link, and add it to an app with one button. The PRO plan opens in Happ (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, macOS), a free third-party app that Project V does not develop. The LITE plan opens in the AmneziaWG app; a standard WireGuard client will not accept that configuration file.

Project V servers are located in Poland and the Netherlands. Both locations were chosen for route length from Russia and the CIS: Poland is the nearest European site with low latency, the Netherlands is a major European internet exchange with strong peering. The Project V referral programme pays 10% of every top-up made by invited users, so ten paying referrals cover the cost of your own subscription. Support is at @pvsupp in Telegram and announcements are published in the channel @pr0jectv.

Two weeks free — test it on your own connection

Open the bot, press Start, add the subscription with one button. If it does not suit you, you have lost nothing.

Payment and support live in Telegram · @pvsupp