The domain names of sites that contain information that looks like the election campaign of the founder of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin were blocked. Roskomsvoboda drew attention to this.
As the project noted, restrictions were imposed on seven domains, all of them are blocked by a «mask», that is, with all domains and subdomains. Which government agency decides to restrict access to sites is not specified.
A link to one of the domains looks like this: https://p2024.site/. On the first page of the site there is a photo of Prigozhin with the words “Evgeny Prigozhin 2024 You must shoot accurately. You have to work honestly.» Further, the landing page mentions the importance of “Russian spirituality”, the war in Ukraine, and phrases characterizing the founder of the “Wagner PMC” periodically appear.
It is said about him: “A man who will not sell Russia for European castles and accounts in American banks”, “Prigozhin did not bow to NATO bullets! Nor will he bow to American diplomats!” In the footer of the site, visitors are urged to support Prigozhin. “To save Russia, be ready to support Prigozhin. The new leader of the new Russia,» the landing page says.
The other blocked sites published the same information.
Presidential elections will be held next year, they are scheduled for March 17th. Prigozhin did not announce his intention to run for the presidency. At the same time, it is not known who exactly created websites similar to the election campaign of the founder of the Wagner PMC.
In the evening of June 23, Prigozhin accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of a missile attack on the «rear camps» of mercenaries. After that, he began a rebellion that lasted about a day. As a result, the Kremlin, through the mediation of Alexander Lukashenko, agreed with Prigozhin that his mercenaries would return to the camps, they would not be prosecuted in return, the criminal case would be dropped, and Prigozhin himself would “leave” for Belarus.