Roskomnadzor blocked the new Vesna website

Roskomnadzor blocked the new website of the “Spring” movement and the movement itself.

reports on August 10, “Vesna” received a complaint from the RKN based on the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office - the department demanded that information “disseminated in violation of the law” be deleted within 24 hours. It is unknown what information Roskomnadzor meant. The site was blocked two hours after notification.

The movement’s telegram channel stated that they would not delete the information, and the site would continue to operate on a new domain.

On May 10, RKN blocked the Vesna website.

The old news headline has been changed due to clarification of information. - At the beginning of May, “Viasna” reported that there was a case against the leaders and participants of the movement regarding the creation of a non-profit organization that encroaches on the personality and rights of citizens (Article 239 of the Criminal Code). According to the investigation, movement participants posted calls on the Internet to participate in anti-war protests from February 25 to 27, 2022, which were not coordinated with the authorities, thereby inducing citizens to commit illegal actions. initiated - The youth movement “Spring” was founded in 2013 in St. Petersburg, then it appeared in other regions of Russia. Since the beginning of the war with Ukraine, members of the movement have actively participated in anti-war demonstrations. On May 9, they planned to hold the “They didn’t fight for this” action, joining the “Immortal Regiment” marches.

• 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. the data told