The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was admitted by the UN specialist on the right to freedom of speech by David Kaye, a teacher of the University of California, in the case of forced blocking of the sites of the Russian media. His opinion about the complaints of the Russian media about the forced blocking by the authorities of their sites will be published in the ECHR by the UN specialist on the issue of encouraging and protecting the right to freedom and their free expression David Kaye.

The list of blocked “Open Russia”, the National Democratic Institute, the Investment Fund for the Development of Information Funds, the Open Society Soros Fund, the Institute of Modern Russia and other sites. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office blocked a number of Internet resources for political reasons, thus using the recently adopted Federal Law 327-FZ, which allows you to immediately block the sites of organizations recognized as “undesirable”.

Ruslan Sokolovsky's defense believes that the blogger's actions do not constitute a crime, and the verdict is based on dubious testimony of witnesses. Today, the defense of video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, convicted of insulting the feelings of believers after catching Pokemon in the Yekaterinburg Church on the Blood, filed a cassation appeal with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, said the blogger’s lawyer Alexey Bushmakov.

The arguments of the defense and experts that the messenger keys to the special services cannot simply physically, unfortunately, today the Russian femid is not impressed today. The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow considered an appeal for a fine of 800 thousand rubles, to which they sentenced the Telegram company for refusing to fulfill the requirements of the FSB and provide user data. Judge Julia Mordvina left the decision of the previous court in force.