The OVD-Info community on VKontakte was blocked in Russia at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office

The OVD-Info community on VKontakte was blocked in Russia at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The reason was “information materials containing unreliable socially significant information about the special military operation being carried out by the Russian Armed Forces, its form, methods of conducting combat operations, as well as information about attacks on civilian infrastructure, numerous casualties among the civilian population of Ukraine and in the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces, regarding general mobilization and others.”

OVD-Info website December 25, 2021 by the decision of the Lukhovitsky District Court of the Moscow Region. The reason for this was that the activities of OVD-Info were allegedly aimed at promoting terrorism and extremism on Russian territory.

However, on July 4 this decision was blocked due to procedural violations, and the judge was reprimanded. The case was sent for a new trial; the site remains blocked.

canceled - 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. told the data