Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to deprive the Khakassia news agency of its media license. This was reported by Siberian Express; the case file is available on the court’s website.
The case came to court on November 28, the first hearing is scheduled for January 22, 2024. The defendant is the Khakassia Information Agency LLC, owned by the editor-in-chief of the publication Valentina Ustyakhina.
Shortly before filing the lawsuit, the publication spoke about Khakass social activist Nadezhda Uzunova, whose children were not in the war, who participated in Vladimir Putin’s meeting with “mothers of military personnel - members of the Northern Military District.” Uzunovaappeared together with United Russia member and Speaker of the Supreme Council of Khakassia Sergei Sokol, who stopped allowing Khakassia news agency journalists into the regional parliament due to criticism of him.
According to local blogger Mikhail Verkhoturov, they decided to close Khakassia for publishing materials from foreign media outlets, such as Radio Liberty. “The employees of the TsIPSO of Ukraine, through the hands of journalists from the Khakassia news agency, carried out operations to destabilize the situation in the republic,” the blogger said.
- 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.
- From January to June 2023, Yandex, at the request of Roskomnadzor, removed 190,525 links from the search. This is 41,161 more links than in the second half of 2022 . In addition, at the request of the supervisory authority, Yandex removes prohibited content from its servers, for example, from Yandex Cue or Yandex Music, as well as images, turbo pages, saved copies of pages, etc.