Roskomnadzor has limited access to the Dron Media publication

On July 24, Roskomnadzor included the website of the Dron Media publication in the list of resources to which access is limited in Russia. A representative of the publication reported this to OVD-Info.

Journalists did not receive notification from the department about the blocking.

Also, the social network VKontakte, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked access to the Drone Media community. The publication had only been open for a month before it was blocked. Journalists will continue to publish materials, a representative of the publication said.

The media website says that this is an independent publication with an international team of journalists covering events in the countries of the former USSR.

• After February 24, Roskomnadzor demanded 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.
• According to Roskomsvoboda, as of July 18, Roskomnadzor has already blocked more than 5,500 sites. On May 26, the head of the department, Andrei Lipov, said: “Since the end of February, we have identified and removed over 117 thousand “fakes” about the essence of the conflict, the actions and losses of the armed forces, 38 thousand calls for protests, and blocked 1,177 resources with Ukrainian nationalist propaganda with a total audience of over 202 million users."