The Bell website in Russia is blocked

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Roskomnadzor has restricted access to The Bell website, follows from the materials of the department. Since the start of the war with Ukraine, thousands of Internet sites have been blocked in Russia, including the media, social networks and public organizations.

The grounds for blocking The Bell website are not specified. Users located in Russia can still open it using a VPN. There is no responsibility for reading blocked sites and using VPN in Russia.

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• In April last year, the Ministry of Justice recognized the founder of The Bell, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, and the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the publication, Irina Malkova, as foreign agents, and in December it entered the publication itself into the register of “foreign agents”. We talked about how the business of the media, which were declared foreign agents in Russia, and how the status affects the lives of journalists, works here .