RKN blocked the site "MBX-Media"

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked the website of MBH-Media. This was reported by the edition of the publication with reference to the register of the censorship department.

“The reasons for the blocking are still unknown. We did not receive any letters from Roskomnadzor,” said the chief of the resource of Veronika Kutsyllo.

As of 20:05 Moscow time, the site was freely opened in the Russian capital. However, already at 21:17 he stopped opening.

“MBH-Media” was opened on December 21 last year by the editorial office of “Open Russia”, after the previously current website of OR Roskomnadzor blocked the “Lugovoi Law”. The Open Russia is not going to continue to exist due to a constant change of mirrors after the next locks, ”the appropriate statement said.

The confidence that the new site will also not be blocked, the editors explained by the fact that the MBH-Media is not connected with the Open Russia movement, but belongs to "personally Russian citizen Mikhail Khodorkovsky."

Meanwhile, the personal site of the former oligarch Khodorkovsky.ru was blocked on December 12, 2017 simultaneously with the Open University sites .

The right to block sites of "undesirable" NGOs is provided for by amendments to the Lugovo Law adopted in November. At the same time, the Russian organization with the name "Open Russia" was not included in the list of "undesirable" - only two structures of the same name registered in the UK declared such.

The “facets” were among the first publications blocked according to the Lugovo Law. Access to the resource was closed on March 13, 2014, on the eve of the annexation of Crimea. According to officials, the "set of content" of the site allegedly encourages the reader to participate in "promotions conducted in violation of public order." Before Russian users, an “non-closed” mirror was created https://grani-ru-org.appspot.com/ , RKN brought more than 700 mirrors of our site to the register of prohibited resources.