The website of the activist environmental organization Greenpeace (www.greenpeace.org) is blocked in Russia. Attention to the record about this in the register of prohibited information was drawn by RoskomSvoboda.
On May 19, the Prosecutor General of Russia recognized the “undesirable” activity of Greenpeace. The department stated that such a decision was made "including due to attempts of [Greenpeace] interference in the internal affairs of the country." In addition, the organization allegedly sponsor the work of Russian “foreign agents”, and from the beginning of a full-scale war “has been engaged in anti-Russian propaganda”.
At the end of April, the Russian Ecological Society (REO) asked to recognize Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) “Foreign Agents”. The second, as a result, really received this status, but Greenpeace faced more serious consequences, since “undesirable” organizations are prohibited from conducting activities in Russia. Rashid Ismailov, chairman of the RAO, said that he faced the “unfriendly actions” of Greenpeace and WWF. Both organizations allegedly form “negative public opinion on the actions of the Russian government and companies in the field of nature protection”:
“There was a case when Greenpeace showed a fake picture from the water space off the coast of Kamchatka for subsequent false accusations. This destructively affects public opinion, forms false ideas about the work of the authorities. And this is no longer ecology, but politics. ”
