Blocked the site "Open Russia"

Russian providers began to block at the request of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation the site of the Open Russia movement.

According to the Facebook “Open Russia” , sites “instead of Putin”, “Khodorkovsky.ru”, “Open Right”, “Open Russia” and “Open University” were also blocked.

Roskomnadzor introduced these sites to the register of Internet resources that contain “calls for mass riots” or “information materials of a foreign or international non-governmental organization, whose activities are recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation”. According to information in the register, access to the site is limited on the basis of the decision of the Prosecutor General of December 11.

“The Open Russia website never called for mass riots,” Veronika Kutsyllo, editor -in -chief of the Open Russia website, commented on Kommersant , adding that in the near future “Open Russia” will inform about the reserve resources on which it will post its information.

“There are no foreign organizations with such names, and the existing“ undesirable ”foreign organizations (with completely different names) have nothing to do with blocked sites,” said the founder of the Open Russia movement Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

“We will continue the work of the editors and will release materials on social networks and on my personal (as a citizen of the Russian Federation) domains,” he promised.

In April 2017, the Prosecutor General’s Officerecognized the activities of non -governmental organizations Otkrytaya Rossia (Great Britain), Institute of Modern Russia, Inc. (USA) and Open Russia Civic Movement (Great Britain). Then Khodorkovsky noted that the "Movement" Open Russia "does not concern - it is Russian."

PS “From December 1, the Law on the blocking of information resources of unwanted organizations entered into force. By the decision of the Prosecutor General and his deputy, a letter came to us precisely for this part of this law - as undesirable organizations. Accordingly, we fulfilled it, ”the head of the department Alexander Zharov explained to Interfax, the actions of Roskomnadzor.