Roskomnadzor blocked on the territory of Russia the St. Petersburg city publication Paper, which wrote about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the persecution of participants in anti-war actions.
The department’s register says that access was restricted at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office on February 24.< /p>
The editors of «Paper» said that they did not receive notifications of blocking from Roskomnadzor, and promised to continue working. “From the beginning of hostilities "Paper" honestly covered the situation in Ukraine, we followed and continue to follow the standards of quality journalism,” they added.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of several dozen independent publications, including Mediazona, «Jellyfish», Taigi.info, Radio Liberty and its regional projects, BBC Russian Service and Deutsche Welle.
The Prosecutor General's Office also accused «Rain» and «Echo of Moscow» in «calls to extremist activity” and dissemination of “knowingly false information” about Russian Russian military in Ukraine.
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