{"id":55622,"date":"2014-03-03T11:47:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=55622"},"modified":"2022-12-16T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:23:08","slug":"vkontakt-blocked-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=55622","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine pages blocked on “Russian Facebook”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian authorities have blocked access to 13 sites connected to\u00a0“Ukrainian nationalist organisations”\u00a0on the social media site Vkontakte, Russia’s answer to Facebook.<\/p>\n

The Russian General Prosecutor’s Office requested that Roskomnadzor — the\u00a0Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media\u00a0— block the pages, the body said in a statement Monday<\/a>. The pages promoted Ukrainian nationalist groups and “contained direct appeals to Russian people to conduct terrorist activities,” the statement read.<\/p>\n

There had been reports over the weekend of pages on Vkontakte<\/a> being blocked<\/a>, but the message from Roskomnadzor\u00a0confirms this.<\/p>\n

While it is unclear which sites the ban covers, it appears a group connected to the Euromaidan protests is one of them. A screen grab, allegedly from a Euromaidan group, first shared by a journalist<\/a> from Russian news site\u00a0slon.ru<\/a>, read: “This material was blocked on the territory of Russian Federation by a decision by the State Communication Committee” and that the decision had been made on 2 March.<\/p>\n

This article was posted on March 3, 2014 at indexoncensorship.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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