Plugging effect

Russian providers began blocking the site of Alexei Navalny at the claim of billionaire Oleg Deripaska about the disclosure of information about his personal life. This was reported by the politician himself.

“Through some providers, the site still opens, but this is temporary,” Navalny noted. As of 14:15 navalny.com without the use of anonymizers or VPN did not open among MTS, Akalo, Beeline, Yota customers.

"So far, the Navalny website is available in mirrors http://rybka.fuckrkn.org (with any subdomain). A little later we will make: 1. Red button, as before. 2. Another special surprise for assholes from RKN," wrote one of the politician IT specialists.

Meanwhile, on YouTube , a film-investigation film "Sex Hotel exposes the bribe taker" by the morning of Thursday scored more than 5 million views. The video remains accessible to Russian users. Negotiations of Roskomnadzor with Google about the removal of data from YouTube are ongoing.

On February 7, Navalny published an investigation based, in particular, on posts on Instagram, an employee of the escort agency under the pseudonym Nastya Rybka and her book "Diary for Seduction of a billionaire, or a clone for an oligarch." The fish describes a trip on a yacht with the characters whom FBK identified as Deputy Prime Minister - the head of the government apparatus Sergei Prikhodko and Deripaska.

The decision to include pages with the materials of the investigation on the Navalny website and in other media in the register of prohibited information became the security measure adopted by the Ust-Labinsky district court of the Krasnodar Territory in the claim of Deripaska against Anastasia Vyukevich (Rybka) and its "sex trainer" Alexander Kirillov (Alex Lesli). The third party is indicated by Roskomnadzor.

A number of the media have complied with the requirements of the RKN. In addition, Instagram deleted photos from the fish profile. Navalny considered the actions of the court and RKN illegal. On Tuesday, the politician filed a lawsuit against the department to the Tagansky district court. The document with reference to the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court notes that information can be distributed without the consent of the citizen if there is public interest. "The investigation was aimed at revealing the facts of corruption by the official of the Government of the Russian Federation," the lawsuit said. The topic is of interest to society, Navalny points out. This is confirmed by the number of publications in the media and the number of views of the plot on YouTube.

Navalny also refers to the European Human Rights Convention. It says that freedom to express opinions can be limited, in particular, to protect the reputation or rights of other persons or to prevent the disclosure of information received confidentially. However, there is no such information in the FBK investigation, it was carried out on the basis of open sources, indicated in the lawsuit.