I think they finally blocked VPN for livejournal.com
Livejournal servers are in Russia, where the government is really starting to lock down the internet, especially going after VPNs. I am not a huge livejournal user, not anymore, but I have been logging on again, intermittently, for a while.
I have never been blocked from logging in even while using a VPN, even though VPNs have generally been banned or blocked in Russian Federation for quite some time. Today that changed. However, by using Tor over VPN I was able to access and log on, even though Russia has been battling against Tor users forever. Tor over VPN is awesome, providing extra layers of security and anonymity. I don't use it very often though because it's also slower and I don't want to unnecessarily strain the Tor network just to look at old paintings or read wikipedia or whatever.