A court in the Moscow region blocked the translation of the Economist magazine's analytical material on corruption for “promoting bribery.”

On July 28, the Ramensky City Court of the Moscow Region, at the request of the Ramensky City Prosecutor's Office, blocked magazine's analytical material the translation of the Economist on bribes. to this . drew attention The human rights project Roskomsvoboda

The material “If you don’t grease, you won’t go: how to properly give a “paw”,” first published in English in 2006, was translated and reprinted by the InoSMI website. It talks about the causes of corruption, understands the terminology of corrupt officials, analyzes methods of giving bribes in different countries and provides cases from the lives of correspondents who personally encountered them.

According to the court, the material contains propaganda of bribery, as well as “instructions on the procedure for giving bribes to officials of state bodies and institutions, prohibited for distribution on the territory of the Russian Federation.”

The article was included in the register of prohibited information on August 9.

In September 2021, Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Sverdlovsk government “Oblastnaya Gazeta” due to the reprint of humorous material from the satirical magazine “Krasnaya Burda” about bribes, but the site was later unblocked.