Roskomnadzor blocks more than 30 websites over fake news
Russian telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor blocked access to more than 30 websites and other media outlets at the request of the Russian prosecutor general’s office. The block includes websites of Belarusian Euroradio, the Estonian newspaper Postimees, Novye Izvestia, Russian-language Channel 9, Vesti Izrailya, and other media outlets. The prosecutor general’s office requested that they be blocked, claiming that they were distributing false information about the Ukrainian conflict.
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