VKontakte blocked the Mediazones public page

The social network VKontakte blocked the Mediazones page. A blocking notification appears when you try to access a public publication.

According to the notice, the page was blocked at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. As the publication itself clarifies, the editors received a notification stating that the department had identified “information resources that systematically post unreliable socially significant information about the special military operation being carried out by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.”

On March 6, Roskomnadzor accessed the Mediazona website due to a publication about the war in Ukraine.

blocked on March 10, 11 and 12, the social network blocked access to the pages of , Radio Liberty, Present Time, The Village, Republic.

“Medusa” 7×7 - February 24 Roskomnadzor, so that the media write 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. demanded - The number of sites since the beginning of the “special operation” is in the dozens. On March 11 in Russia, access to the websites of several human rights organizations and independent publications, including Golos, Amnesty International, Colta. those blocked were closed