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The Yakut publication Ykt.Ru announced the cessation of work
Yakut portal Ykt.Ru about its closure. According to the founder of the site, the publication does not want to “turn into a pro-government, censored resource, obligingly supporting all decisions made at the top.”
reported “In order to preserve the reputation of the portal and team, our glorious history, we decided to stop the work of Ykt.Ru. It's time to close the portal. I emphasize that this is our independent decision, made in response to the current situation,” said the founder of the resource, Arsen Tomsky.
The media manager added that the editors of Ykt.Ru have withstood pressure on independent media for many years, but now, according to him, “the country is seriously closing itself off from the world, an atmosphere of struggle against dissent and intolerance towards opinions different from those coming down from above is being intensified.”
Since the start of the war there have already been about 20 websites of various publications. Many of them, as well as many of those that were not blocked, announced they were suspending or refusing to cover the war with Ukraine.
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.