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A court in the Moscow region blocked a reprinted translation of The Economist's material on bribes
On July 28, the Ramensky City Court of the Moscow Region decided to block the reprinted translation of The Economist's material on bribes. Roskomsvoboda should pay attention to this.
appealed The court complied with the request of the Ramenskaya city prosecutor's office.
In 2006, The Economist published an article in English on How to grease a palm (Russian: How to give bribes), dedicated to corruption. In the same year, InoSMI published a text in Russian under the heading “If you don’t grease, you won’t go: how to properly give a “paw”.” And the publication “Criminal Ukraine” translated the material on its website. The page with this publication was blocked.
published translated reprinted The text discusses the causes of corruption, describes the traditions of bribery in different countries and specific cases. Roskomnadzor considered this “instructions on the procedure for giving bribes to officials of government bodies and institutions.”
On August 9, the decision to block was carried out.
- On the morning of February 24, Russia launched a “special military operation in the Donbass.” Shelling of strategically significant objects began throughout Ukraine, followed by attempts to capture cities - Kyiv, Kharkov, Mariupol and others. On the eve of the DPR and LPR to Putin for military assistance. - After this, Roskomnadzor asked the media to 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, - According to Roskomsvoboda, as of July 18, Roskomnadzor has already blocked more than 5,500 sites. In early August, in an interview with Kommersant, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said that since February 24, at the request of prosecutors, about 138 thousand Internet resources have been blocked in Russia. “After the start of the ‘special military operation’, we strengthened our counteraction to the spread of calls for extremism and terrorism, mass unrest and ‘fake’ news on the Internet,” he said.