"United Russia" will sue Lurkomorye

United Russia may sue the Lurcomorye Internet Encyclopedia, Lifenews reports. The Vice Speaker of the State Duma and a member of the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, Sergei Zheleznyak, said that he was studying the possibility of proceedings with the resource for the maintenance of an article about the party in power. “We know that this resource has recently had problems with Russian legislation and for some time was in the register of prohibited sites of Roskomnadzor for articles about drugs,” Zheleznyak said. “In addition, this resource has an article about United Russia, which needs to study.”

According to the deputy from "United Russia" Alexander Sidyakin, the substantial part of the article on the party in power may well become the basis for the trial. “On the Internet, a lot of nonsense is written in relation to the United Russia party, and the Lurkmore article is not an exception. Therefore, I would not want to go into diagnosing the state of those characters who write this. I can only say that we have an article on the protection of honor and dignity according to which this resource may well receive a lawsuit by representatives of the party,” Sidyakin said.

According to United Russia, Evgeny Fedorov, an article about "United Russia" on Lurcomorye may be subject to seizure by court decision in connection with the recently adopted criminal liability for slander. "The article by Lurkmore, like other false articles on our party on the Internet, are a focused information war from the United States. This country is happy to use propaganda against us and allocates considerable grants for this," Fedorov assures. "As for the article about the party, it is no longer the subject of consideration for the register of prohibited sites, but is quite completely under the responsibility of the new criminal article for the new criminal article Therefore, the court will be able to oblige this resource to block the article. "

On November 13, Roskomnadzor excluded the IP address of Lurcomoria from the register of information banned in Russia. The department explained that after receiving a notification from the owners of the resource of fulfilling the requirements of the department, the specialists made sure that the content that served for blocking the site was removed from the pages of Lurkmorya.

On the night of November 11, the IP address was blocked, on which Lurkomorye is located. Later it became known that the encyclopedia fell into the register of prohibited sites for prohibited information for the article "Dudka" dedicated to hemp and methods of its use. The resource administration has hung out on the “Dudka” page of the announcement, the article was blocked at the request of the FSKN. ”

The official representative of the FSKN Nikolai Kartashov confirmed that the department discovered drug propaganda on the Lurcomorye website. “A number of resource pages contained information that can be qualified as drug propaganda,” he said. “We are not engaged in the closure of sites. The fact that the site posted illegal information has become known from the appeals of citizens who came to Roskomnadzor and transferred to the Russian Federal District. FSKN conducted an audit and sent the appropriate submission to Roskomnadzor,” Kartashov said.