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In April–July 2022, the Russian authorities put several Wikipedia articles on their list of forbidden sites, [106] [107] [108] and then ordered search engines to mark Wikipedia as a violator of Russian laws. [109] Russian authorities have blocked or removed about 138,000 websites since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. [110]
In March 2022, YouTube started showing its users ads with calls to disable Russian railroad communications. As a result, Roskomnadzor contacted Google and demanded the company to stop the threats against Russia. [81] YouTube also blocks Russian state-funded propaganda channels. [82]
In December 2009, Russian-based Internet provider Yota, with over 100,000 subscribers [9] blocked access to some Russian opposition Internet resources for its Moscow-based subscribers for a few days. This occurred after the chief prosecutor of St. Petersburg recommended that the company prevent access to extremist resources.
Russia's digital development ministry plans to allocate nearly 60 billion roubles ($660 million) over the next five years to improve the system used to censor web traffic, a government proposal ...
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The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict to help Russians sidestep censors and access Western media, according ...
Censorship is controlled by the Government of Russia and by civil society in the Russian Federation, applying to the content and the diffusion of information, printed documents, music, works of art, cinema and photography, radio and television, web sites and portals, and in some cases private correspondence, with the aim of limiting or preventing the dissemination of ideas and information that ...
In February and March 2022, Russian Wikipedia editors warned their readers and fellow editors of several reiterated attempts by the Russian government of political censorship, internet propaganda, disinformation, attacks, and disruptive editing towards an article reporting Russian military casualties and Ukrainian civilian casualties of the ...