Russian authorities plan to give regulators more powerful tools to combat online gambling sites serving Russian punters without a local license.

Last September, Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor imposed blocks on a couple dozen gambling sites linked to both domestic and international operators, as part of a clampdown on banned sites offering all manner of unauthorized material, including certain types of porn, pirated intellectual property and the like.

On April 26, Russia’s Ministry of Communications released a proposed amendment to federal law that sought to “address the deficiencies identified as a result of enforcement of rules to limit access to sites on the Internet containing illegal information.”

The text accompanying the amendment explains that the operators of restricted sites have been informing users of ways to circumvent the IP-blocks imposed by Russian authorities, including through the use of ‘mirror’ sites that alter the offending domain just enough to evade the digital censors.