Roskomnadzor blocked the site compromat.ru

Roskomnadzor blocked the site compromat.ru for a violation of copyrights for literary works. This was stated by the press secretary of the department Vadim Ampelonsky, Interfax reports .

"We blocked the site compromat.ru on the basis of the decision of the Moscow City Court on the application of the copyright holder for a literary work," Ampelonsky said. As the representative of the RKN noted, since then the site administration has not tried to contact the department and did not report the intention to devote illegally placed content.

Currently, sites at comporomat.ru and kompromat.ru are not available to users from Russia. However, mirrors at the addresses of compromat.net and compromat.org locks were avoided and open freely.

In 2014, the site, by decision of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Belgorod, was entered in the register of prohibited information . The lawsuit was filed with the aim of protecting honor, dignity and business reputation in connection with the material about the head of the Belgorod Internal Affairs Directorate, Major General Viktor Pesterev. The administrators of compromat.ru reprinted this article from the site of another publication - the newspaper Jacta.ru.

The site compromat.ru was included in the register, since Roskomnadzor could not contact its owners so that they remove the material prohibited by the court, then Ampelonsky said. Later the site was unlocked.

Compromat.ru is an information site created by Sergey Gorshvkov in 1999. The project was often accused of placing incorrect information, repeatedly attacked, because of this for a long time it was inaccessible to users. In July 2010, Gorshkov sold compromat.ru to a private investor Andrei Rutberg, who acquired this resource in interest