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This is a list of notable websites that have been blocked or censored in Russia, including current and past blocks. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has maintained an official mandatory list since 2012.
Within the Russian Federation, a number of Wikipedia articles have been banned. Some of the banned articles have resulted in fines levied against the Wikimedia Foundation. [1] As of July 2023, there have been a total of 7 fines totaling 8.4 million rubles. [2] The Wikimedia Foundation has appealed these fines in court, [3] and has lost. [4]
The law allowed for flexible interpretation and inclusion of a wide array of content which was frequently abused by the law enforcement and administration for blanket blocking of publications criticizing state policy or describing daily problems of life in Russia. Popular opposition websites encouraging protests against the court rulings in ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Russia was a part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . The virus was confirmed to have spread to Russia on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese citizens in Tyumen ( Siberia ) and Chita ( Russian Far East ) tested positive for the virus, with both cases ...
Federal List of Extremist Materials (Russian: Федеральный список экстремистских материалов, Federal'nyy spisok ekstremistskikh matyerialov) is a list of works that are banned in the Russian Federation, primarily based on the Russian Internet Restriction Bill.
The government of Russia has initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country with preventive measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 in the country, which involved imposing quarantines, carrying raids on potential virus carriers, and using facial recognition to impose quarantine measures. [1]
On 31 March 2013, The New York Times reported that Russia was "selectively blocking [the] Internet". [21] In 2014, during the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor had a number of websites criticising Russian policy in Ukraine blocked, including the blog of Alexei Navalny, Kasparov.ru and Грани.ру . [22]