{"id":15027,"date":"2010-08-18T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=15027"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:20:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:20:52","slug":"russia-forestry-website-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=15027","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Website blocked after contradicting government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website of the Russian Centre for the Protection of Forestry<em> <\/em>(Roslesozashchita) has been blocked since 13 August after it contradicted the official government line that brush\u00a0<a title=\"Guardian: Forest fires blaze across Russia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/gallery\/2010\/aug\/02\/russia-natural-disasters\" target=\"_blank\">fires<\/a> had not reached areas contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The agency said fires were reported in the Bryansk region bordering Belarus and Ukraine, where radioactive residue covers large areas. Speaking on Russian television shortly before the website became inaccessible, emergencies minister Sergei Shoigu dismissed this as &#8220;unclear information from an unclear website&#8221;. <a title=\"New York Times: Russian Fires Raise Fears of Radioactivity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/11\/world\/europe\/11russia.html?_r=1&amp;ref=environment\" target=\"_blank\">Officials<\/a> seem reluctant to comment on the radioactive threat, despite warnings from <a title=\"Greenpeace Russia: Smog may be followed by radiation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/russia\/en\/news\/smog-may-be-followed-by-radia\" target=\"_blank\">Greenpeace Russia<\/a>. <a title=\"RSF: Official website\u2019s inaccessibility raises questions about information transparency\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/russia-official-website-s-inaccessibility-16-08-2010,38162.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF)<\/a> suggest the website may have been blocked because the information posted was embarrassing for the government rather than incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website of the Russian Centre for the Protection of Forestry (Roslesozashchita) has been blocked since 13 August after it contradicted the official government line that brush\u00a0fires had not reached areas contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The agency said fires were reported in the Bryansk region bordering Belarus and Ukraine, where radioactive residue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,585],"tags":[211,7349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15027"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94595,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions\/94595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}