Ekho Moskvy and Dozhd websites blocked in Russia

Updated . According to the GlobalCheck project, the websites of Ekho Moskvy and Dozhd have already been blocked in Russia. The radio station Ekho Moskvy has also been taken off the air, its editor-in-chief Alexey Venediktov reported .

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office is demanding that access to the websites of the Ekho Moskvy radio station and the Dozhd TV channel be restricted due to materials containing calls for extremist activity.

According to the agency, these media outlets also “deliberately and systematically” publish “deliberately false information about the actions of Russian military personnel as part of a special operation to protect the DPR and LPR.”

In a comment to Interfax, Ekho Moskvy editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov said that the radio station had not received any notifications of violations from the Prosecutor General's Office. "We believe that we have not violated anything, we do not see any traces of violations," he said.

• After Vladimir Putin announced a “special operation” in Ukraine, Roskomnadzor began sending out warnings to media outlets that they were publishing “false information” about Russian troops shelling Ukrainian cities and the deaths of Ukrainian civilians, and that they were calling the “special operation” in their materials “an attack, an invasion, or a declaration of war.”