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A Russian court has fined Wikipedia owner Wikimedia Foundation 2 million rubles ($32) for articles about the war in Ukraine. Stanislav Kozlovsky, head of the Russian branch of the Wikimedia Foundation, told Reuters. According to Kozlovsky, the fine was imposed for failing to remove records that the Russian government had demanded be removed. He said that the fund would appeal...
Facebook once again complied with the request of Roskomnadzor and unblocked the official page of the Russian Federation delegation at the negotiations in Vienna on military security and arms control. The department reports this in its official telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On January 16, 2022, Roskomnadzor sent the administration of the social network a demand to immediately remove all restrictions from the page. Less than…
On December 24, the Tagansky District Magistrate Court of Moscow considered two cases against foreign IT companies Google LLC and Facebook Inc (now Meta Platforms) and found them guilty for repeated refusal to block content prohibited in Russia. For the first time, a Russian court imposed fines representing a share of the revenue of these companies for the year in Russia, namely: 7,22 billion rubles...
The social network Facebook distributed fraudulent advertisements using Roscosmos symbols. Roskomnadzor reported this in its official Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In the advertisement, the user is invited to register to participate in an alleged Roscosmos project that allows them to make money on the stock markets. After clicking on the link and filling out the form, the participant is asked to transfer his banking information to third parties. These advertisements are sent...
In 2014, exercises took place in Russia that showed the critical dependence of the Russian Internet on American structures. The head of Roskomnadzor, Andrei Lipov, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, when answering the question of why there was a need for a law on the “sovereign RuNet”. “In 2014, exercises were held to assess the sustainability of the Russian segment of the Internet. We drew conclusions and reported to the President and the Security Council...
Internet services that help bypass the blocking of certain resources must comply with the requirements of Russian legislation. The head of Roskomnadzor, Andrei Lipov, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, when answering the question whether it is planned to complicate access to VPN services that helped users bypass Telegram blocking. “There are VPN services that do not comply with Russian legislation. We are working with them, trying to resolve controversial issues.…
Roskomnadzor announced a partial lifting of measures to slow down Twitter traffic, since this American social network has already deleted 91% of prohibited information. The department reports this in its official telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Taking into account the efforts made by the administration of the social network, a decision was made not to block the Twitter service, to remove access restrictions in fixed networks (respectively, Wi-Fi networks connected to them), preserving...
The administration of the American social network Twitter agreed to comply with the conditions of Roskomnadzor and delete prohibited content. The Russian supervisory agency reports this on its official telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “After taking measures on March 10, 2021 to slow down Twitter traffic on the territory of the Russian Federation, the administration of the social network deleted or blocked 60% of materials with information prohibited in Russia -...
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has decided not to block the work of the social network Twitter in Russia. This was reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent on the Roskomnadzor website. “After taking measures to slow down Twitter traffic on March 10, 2021, the social network deleted about 1,9 thousand out of 3.1 thousand that had not been deleted since 2017...
Before starting to “slow down” Twitter, Roskomnadzor “trained” on Russian social networks, where calls for participation in illegal rallies for Alexei Navalny were distributed in the winter. German Klimenko, former adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on Internet issues, stated this in an interview with the Antonyms YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Western social networks earn money in the Russian Federation, but refuse to comply with Russian legislation. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, KP asked the director of the Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies (ROCIT) Sergei Grebennikov for comments. According to him, users of Internet giants should be forced to respect them. “And respect the laws of the country in which you work. Unfortunately, neither...
Roskomnadzor began to slow down the work of the social network Twitter on all mobile devices and half of stationary ones. This is stated in the announcement on the official website of the department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Due to the fact that the Internet service Twitter, from 2017 to the present, does not delete content that induces minors to commit suicide, containing child pornography, as well as information about...
The State Duma of the Russian Federation today adopted a bill that allows Roskomnadzor to block materials on the Internet that contain justification or justification for extremist or terrorist activities out of court. The document was adopted in the first reading, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “If you support this project, the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office will be able to quickly and efficiently block information that contains not only calls, but...
Roskomndzor demanded that Kyiv blogger and publicist Miroslava Berdnik remove materials allegedly “directed against Russia.” Berdnik reported this on her social network page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I received a threat from Roskomnadzor to block my blog, or rather, individual blog pages for now, on Russian territory for publishing materials directed against Russia, which “promote the ideology of well-known terrorists,...
