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In March 2014, in the midst of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the LiveJournal blog of Alexei Navalny, Kasparov.ru and Grani.ru were blocked by the government. These sites, which opposed the Russian government, were blocked for "making calls for unlawful activity and participation in mass events held with breaches of public ...
Then the Russian Government passed the law about undesirable organizations in 2015, after which all suspected 'undesirable organizations' websites could also be arbitrarily blocked by the Prosecutor General's Office. After that, the 'undesirable' websites of philanthropist George Soros and a number of other were blocked in Russia. [89]
Within the Russian Federation, a number of Wikipedia articles have been banned. Some of the banned articles have resulted in fines levied against the Wikimedia Foundation. [1] As of July 2023, there have been a total of 7 fines totaling 8.4 million rubles. [2] The Wikimedia Foundation has appealed these fines in court, [3] and has lost. [4]
The Biden administration on Wednesday condemned Russian efforts to influence the 2024 U.S. election as the Justice Department announced it seized 32 web domains the country has used for its covert ...
Also, on 22 June 2016 Amazon Web Services was entirely blocked for a couple of hours because of a poker app. [23] [24] As of April 2024, 200,000 websites related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are blocked. [25] Roskomnadzor is blocking around 150 virtual private network (VPN) services and 700 websites involved in advertising VPNs. [25]
Federal List of Extremist Materials (Russian: Федеральный список экстремистских материалов, Federal'nyy spisok ekstremistskikh matyerialov) is a list of works that are banned in the Russian Federation, primarily based on the Russian Internet Restriction Bill.
OVD-Info's Kak Teper would be the first Russian human rights channel to be banned on YouTube, as opposed to just a few videos, according to Natalia Krapiva, tech legal counsel at global digital ...
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 ...