In Russia, the website of the “Our Headquarters” project, the creators of which intend to support independent presidential candidates, was blocked. Roskomsvoboda drew attention to the blocking.
An “unspecified government agency” blocked the site “by mask” - that is, with all domains and subdomains. Project representatives told SOTA that they were not notified of the blockage and learned about the incident from the news.
“Our Headquarters” was created by participants of the “Ark” project. According to information on the website, the project is ready to support any candidate who signed the Declaration with a commitment to advocate for an immediate cessation of hostilities, and, if elected, to repeal repressive laws. Roskomsvoboda believes that it was the open anti-war position of the project that became the reason for blocking the resource.
- After the outbreak of a full-scale war in Ukraine, Roskomnadzor demanded that the media write about what was happening 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.
- For reasons of military censorship, Roskomnadzor blocked more than 200 thousand resources - deputy head of the department Vadim Subbotin spoke about this on June 9. According to him, this number also included “materials calling for mass unauthorized actions and riots.” “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,” Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov previously stated in an interview with Kommersant.