The search engines «Yandex» and Mail.ru removed links to Facebook and Instagram from the issuance, TASS noticed.
If in the search for «Yandex» links to social networks are issued outside of Russia or when using a VPN , then Mail.ru's search doesn't show them at all.
Yandex and Mail.ru also removed links to the websites of Mediazona and other publications blocked for covering the war.
Screenshot of search query results in Yandex
Russia vs. Meta. The court recognizing the owner of Facebook and Instagram as an extremist organization
Roskomnadzor blocked Facebook in Russia on March 4 due to «false information» in several posts of Russian government publications about the war in Ukraine.
After Facebook and Instagram, against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, decided not to remove posts with death wishes or calls for violence against the Russian military, Instagram was blocked on March 13, and on March 21, the court, following the suit of the Prosecutor General's Office, recognized their parent company Meta is an «extremist organization».