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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]
This is a list of notable websites that have been blocked or censored in Russia, including current and past blocks. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has maintained an official mandatory list since 2012.
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]
Russian lawmakers have blamed Google's failure to upgrade its equipment in Russia since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine for a slowdown that started in mid-July. The company and technology experts ...
A leading Russian rights group says it has received a notice from YouTube threatening to block access in Russia to one of its video channels featuring news on the war in Ukraine. OVD-Info, an ...
YouTube terminated several right-wing channels linked to accusations made by federal authorities who allege the right-wing media company that owned the channels was being bankrolled by the Russian ...
Roskomnadzor launched an investigation against the Novaya Gazeta, Echo of Moscow, inoSMI, MediaZona, New Times, TV Rain, and other Russian media outlets for publishing "inaccurate information about the shelling of Ukrainian cities and civilian casualties in Ukraine as a result of the actions of the Russian Army". [184] On 1 March 2022, Russian ...
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 ...