VKontakte blocked the page of St. Petersburg human rights activist Dinar Idrisov

VKontakte blocked the page of St. Petersburg human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. The basis for the blocking was the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office dated February 24. Idrisov himself told OVD-Info about this.

Previously, VKontakte in Russia hosted the public pages of the publications Meduza, Present Time, Radio Liberty and its projects, as well as groups of fans of political scientist Ekaterina Shulman. The request of the Prosecutor General's Office for blocking was also dated February 24, citing the posting of “deliberately false socially significant information about an alleged attack on Ukraine” as the reason.

Roskomnadzor blocked the page on February 24, so that the media would 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. At the moment, the number of sites since the beginning of the “special operation” is in the dozens. demanded blocked