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VKontakte blocked the page of the Belarusian publication Zerkalo
VKontakte, by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the page of the Belarusian publication Zerkalo. The publication itself is about this.
Radio.Svoboda reported that in August 2021, a court in Minsk recognized all materials of the Zerkalo and Tut.by publications, including posts on social networks and the logo, as extremist. Some of the former employees of Tut.by are related to the work of Mirror.
clarifies Tut.by, and later created by members of his team “Zerkalo” - a popular Belarusian news portal. Journalists faced pressure from the authorities during the 2020 presidential elections - then, according to official results, Alexander Lukashenko won 80% of the vote. Belarusians declared election fraud and protested. The authorities roughly detained the protesters and inflicted injuries on them; many people became involved in criminal cases. Human Rights Center “Viasna” has 1,276 political prisoners. The majority, including Tut.by, found themselves under persecution due to the 2020 election campaign.
15 employees used force after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, “Zerkalo” and these events, turning to its own sources and data from independent media. The authorities of Russia and Belarus require journalists to follow only official information.
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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. The day before, the DPR and LPR turned to Putin for military assistance. - After this, Roskomnadzor ordered 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.