Roskomnadzor continues to block the media

Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked the website of the newspaper “Troitsky Variant - Science” and the Kemerovo publication “Kuzpress”. Mediazona drew attention to updates on banned sites.

register The reason for blocking the “Trinity Option” was an anti-war open letter from scientists and scientific journalists, which was signed by more than 7,600 people.

Kuzpress was blocked for an article by the editor-in-chief and founder of the site, Sergei Babikov, “Hell and Death in Ukraine.” The editors have already deleted the publication.

In addition, Roskomnadzor has notified the editorial office of “7×7” about blocking due to the publication of information about the war in Ukraine. “We assure our readers that in any case we will continue to produce honest texts about what is happening in Russian regions, how civil society unites people to defend their rights and about events that affect us all,” the publication noted and published a link to the site .

sent a mirror Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of Mediazona, 7x7, Zvezda and Activatica. Previously, the publication “7×7 - Horizontal Russia” received a notification from Roskomnadzor about blocking due to the publication of information about the war in Ukraine. Activatica only received a notice of blocking from the Prosecutor General's Office. "Mediazona" department demanded to remove its website due to coverage of military operations in Ukraine.

14:22 received received sent The Perm publication “Zvezda,” whose website does not open in Russia, covered anti-war protests in Perm and opposed the war in Ukraine.

There are no entries in the Roskomnadzor registry of blocked sites about the blocking of publication sites.

Roskomnadzor also blocked the websites of the publications Republic, Snob, Agency, Echo of the Caucasus, Sobesednik, the Chelyabinsk news portal LentaChel and the page of the radio Echo of Moscow in Chelyabinsk, Roskomsvoboda.

19:25 writes Roskomnadzor has unblocked the website of the magazine “Snob”, “Roskomsvoboda”. The publication's website was excluded from the register of prohibited sites.

March 7, 15:00 Roskomnadzor writes the website of the TJournal publication at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. The RKN sent a notification to the editor and explained the blocking by “publications containing unreliable socially significant information about numerous casualties among Russian military personnel, as well as the civilian population of Ukraine.”

March 14, 18:00 blocked The title was changed due to the emergence of new information - Since the start of the war, there have already been about 20 sites of various publications. Many of them, as well as many that were not blocked, announced they were suspending or withdrawing their coverage of the war. were blocked - The first manifestation of censorship was Roskomnadzor on February 24, so that the media wrote about the war in Ukraine only with reference to official Russian sources. Journalists were also prohibited from calling the “Russian special operation” an attack, invasion, or declaration of war. Otherwise, the supervisory authority threatened with blocking and fines of up to five million rubles. requirement