REFUTED: The social network “Vkontakte” blocked protest meetings on October 7

UPD: OVD-Info refutes this news. Information about blocking groups has not been confirmed. A number of groups are really not available at the moment, but there is no talk of blocking by the service or government agencies. We apologize to our readers.

In the social network "Vkontakte" blocked meetings of protests of supporters of Alexei Navalny. At the moment, it is known that 54 links to events in different cities do not work.

The meeting was blocked in Moscow , as well as in other large cities - in Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod , Kazan . In St. Petersburg, the link to the action continues to work.

On October 7, Navalny's supporters plan to hold rallies across Russia. They are dissatisfied with the decision of the Simonovsky court, which on October 2 arrested the opposition leader for 20 days.