The cuts were first noted by the outlet Verstka, which compared the channel's official version with the original episodes.
In the third episode of the 14th season, Kostya Voronin searches the refrigerator for food after a quarrel with his wife, Vera. In the original, he says: "Oh, I forgot, we're at war! Well, all right, war is war, but lunch, as they say, is on schedule!" According to Verstka, the line has nothing to do with combat and describes a domestic dispute.
The 12th episode of the 12th season is set on New Year's Eve, from 1999 into 2000. After Boris Yeltsin's resignation, the character Lyonya discusses the successor: "Now, of course, Putin is temporary. But it seems to me they'll push him aside quickly. Either Primakov or Chernomyrdin. And I would appoint Kiriyenko, he promised us a pay rise before they removed him." That fragment is absent from the STS version.
Another cut scene comes from the 10th episode of the 11th season. Nikolai Voronin scolds his sons, Kostya and Lyonya, over broken jars of cucumbers and tomatoes. When his wife points out that they are his children, the character replies: "How are these my children? They're Banderites."
Content has been removed from "The Voronins" before. In November 2025, STS shortened the sixth episode of the fourth season, in which relatives discuss whether Lyonya is gay. The episode ran 12 minutes on the channel's website instead of the usual 24. The show's opening titles also censored a mention of the Ukrainian language.
Censorship is not limited to television. According to a count published by Mediazona in October, at least 200 of the 462 series in the online cinema Amediateka had been censored, with roughly 75 hours of content cut in total.