Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of The Moscow Post, Russian Crime and Kompromat-Group due to the alleged spread of “fake news”. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the department.
The publication also talks about the blocking of Polit.Ru, which became known on April 12.
On the main page of The Moscow Post there is a banner of the “All-Russian Popular Front” with a call to help fighters in the “North Military District” zone.
- 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, 2023. 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. According to Roskomnadzor, in the first three months of this year, more than 170 thousand Internet pages with prohibited information were deleted or blocked. Among them are 6.3 thousand fakes about the Russian army. 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.