{"id":92572,"date":"2012-11-20T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T15:34:37","slug":"russia-internet-censorship-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92572","title":{"rendered":"What Russia censored in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October a wave of censorship<\/a>\u00a0swept the Russian internet prior to the official introduction of a new federal internet blacklist law on 1 November.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regional authorities targeted internet service providers to block access to websites<\/a> featuring anti-Islamic, Islamist and Nazi material on the grounds that they were \u201cextremist\u201d. R<\/strong>egional prosecutors targeted websites that allowed access to the video The Innocence of Muslims<\/a>, an amateur film that attracted Islamist protests worldwide.\u00a0Regional prosecutors throughout Russia demanded that internet<\/a> service providers block access to the film in early October. The video was subsequently declared extremist by a Moscow court in the middle of the month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But prosecutors also targeted websites publishing texts as disparate as Adolf Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf and a treatise by the medieval Islamic scholar Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, as well as right-wing Russian nationalist material.\u00a0Among the victims of the trawl are websites run by Jehovah’s Witnesses and conspiracy theorists. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have also been told to block access to websites giving advice on how to commit suicide and promoting pyramid schemes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new national register<\/a> of banned websites<\/strong>\u00a0set up by the Federal Service for Supervision of Telecoms, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor)<\/strong>\u00a0has the power\u00a0to make ISPs block access to websites within three days. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Check back in December for the full list of what was censored in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literature<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/strong><\/strong>16 October<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Stavropol court restricts access to electronic version of late Russian nationalist historian Yuri Petukhov\u2019s\u00a0The Russian World Order<\/em>.<\/p>\n

17 October<\/strong>\u00a0Tver prosecutor announces that website is making available\u00a0Hitler\u2019s Black Guard<\/em>, which is on a federal extremist list, and tries (unsuccessfully) to block the website.<\/strong><\/p>\n

18 October<\/strong>\u00a0Perm prosecutor successfully demands the blocking of websites publishing Hitler’s\u00a0Mein Kampf<\/em>.<\/p>\n

24 October<\/strong>\u00a0Liven prosecutor demands block on ISPs hosting of work of nationalist writer Oray Volot.<\/p>\n

Suicide<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"10 October<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0Stavropol prosecutor demands that ISPs stop access to websites giving advice on how to commit suicide.<\/p>\n

20 October<\/strong>\u00a0Russian supreme court upholds Rostov prosecutor\u2019s 2011 demand that an ISP stops access to websites giving advice on how to commit suicide.<\/p>\n

Drugs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"18 October<\/strong>\u00a0Samara court moves against \u201clegal highs\u201d websites.<\/p>\n

15 October<\/strong>\u00a0Surgat court starts action to prevent the sale of \u201clegal high\u201d drugs online.<\/p>\n

22 October<\/strong>\u00a0Orel prosecutor tries to make an ISP block access to the Wikipedia page on \u201cRussian obscenities\u201d and website advocating use of laughing gas.<\/p>\n

Extremism<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>1 October-17 October<\/strong>\u00a0Warnings issued by prosecutors in Astrakhan, Kaluga, Kostroma, Tomsk, Krasnodar, Mordovia, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Samara, Bashkiria, Bashkortostan, Tula, Ivanovo to ISPs providing access to\u00a0The Innocence of Muslims.<\/p>\n

1 October<\/strong>\u00a0Ipatovsk prosecutor blocks the website publishing text of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali\u2019s\u00a0Council for Kings, a medieval theological treatise included on the federal list of extremist materials.<\/p>\n

1 October\u00a0<\/strong>Ivanovo prosecutor identifies two Jehovah’s Witnesses\u2019 websites as extremist and issues a warning to an ISP.<\/p>\n

3 October\u00a0<\/strong>Altai prosecutor blocks access to lib.rus.ec internet library on grounds of extremist content.<\/p>\n

11 October<\/strong>\u00a0Vladivostok prosecutor orders ISPs to block access to an allegedly anti-Semitic leaflet.<\/p>\n

11 October<\/strong>\u00a0Irkutsk prosecutor blocks access to an \u201cextremist\u201d website.<\/p>\n

15 October <\/strong>Ufa prosecutor starts cases against educational institutions supposedly allowing access to \u201cextremist\u201d materials.<\/p>\n

17 October<\/strong>\u00a0Moscow court declares\u00a0The Innocence of Muslims\u00a0to be extremist.<\/p>\n

17 October\u00a0<\/strong>Belgorod prosecutor demands that an ISP restricts access to 14 sites carrying extremist materials.<\/p>\n

22 October<\/strong>\u00a0North Ossetia prosecutor demands ISPs restrict access to 33 sites containing \u201cextremist\u201d texts.<\/p>\n

22 October <\/strong>Saratov prosecutor demands 20 ISPs restrict access to \u201cextremist\u201d material.<\/p>\n

23 October\u00a0<\/strong>Nenets prosecutor demands ISPs block access to nationalist websites.<\/p>\n

25 October<\/strong>\u00a0St Petersburg prosecutors demand ISPs restrict access to extremist websites.<\/p>\n

Finance<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"10 October<\/strong>\u00a0Nefteyugansk prosecutor demands an ISP stops access to financial services websites it alleges are pyramid schemes.<\/p>\n

12 October<\/strong>\u00a0Tomsk prosecutor demands an ISP stops access to a pyramid scheme website.<\/p>\n

Source: Agentura.Ru<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian journalist, and together with Irina Borogan, co-founder of the\u00a0Agentura.Ru<\/a>\u00a0website. Last year, Soldatov and Borogan co-authored\u00a0The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia\u2019s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB<\/a>\u00a0(PublicAffairs)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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