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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 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 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.
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 ...
Russia branded Meta an "extremist organisation" in 2022 after it temporarily allowed Ukrainian users to post messages in opposition to the invasion, such as "death to the Russian invaders". Meta ...
The BBC is temporarily suspending journalism work in Russia after the country passed a draconian censorship law on Friday that would directly impact journalists in the country. The Duma, Russia ...
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 ...
The striking images of Carnero's book have thrown a spotlight on issues of government censorship in Russia at a time when the Kremlin says it is fighting an existential war with the West to defend ...