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In St. Petersburg, access to the Internet newspaper VCHERA.com was closed for a video included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials on the website of the Ministry of Justice the day after the blocking.

On February 13, 2014, InterZet provider blocked access to the Internet newspaper VCHERA.com. The reason for blocking was the recording of Dokku Umarov’s appeal, which was recognized as extremist and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials under item 2216.

The entry was promptly removed, the newspaper's management negotiated to restore access.

On March 26, 2014, it became known that the VCHERA.com website moved to the new Neva.Today domain. The management of the publication also stated that it plans to file a lawsuit against the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar, which decided to ban the video that caused the blocking of the site.

It should be noted that the editors were not informed about the ban, and paragraph 2216 of the Federal List of Extremist Materials appeared on the website of the Ministry of Justice only on February 14, 2014, therefore, the employees of VCHERA.com could not have known that the video posted as an illustration was recognized as extremist and its distribution is prohibited. However, we believe that the editors should have shown common sense and refrained from publishing this inflammatory video.

Sources

• St. Petersburg provider InterZet closed access to the Internet newspaper YESTERDAY.com // YESTERDAY.com. February 13, 2014
• Yesterday, blocked for extremism, moved to a new domain // Lenizdat.ru. 2014. March 26.