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List of websites blocked in Russia

August 28, 2023

This is a list of notable websites that have been blocked or censored in Russia, including current and past blocks. The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has maintained an official mandatory list since 2012. Websites can be blocked for obtaining child pornography, materials advocating drug abuse and drug production, items on the Federal List of Extremist Materials,[1][2] Violations of data retention and surveillance laws[citation needed] or about fake information of war or invasion of Ukraine.

ISP block page translates to "Access to the resource is limited on the basis of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 No. 149-FZ on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection. Find out why."

A number of websites that maintain lists of banned websites are currently blocked in Russia, based on different sources of information.[3][4]

List

Prior to 2012
  •  
    Blacklist entries as of June 2017 by agencies responsible for the entry
    In 2004 Russia pressured Lithuania, and in 2006 Sweden, into shutting down the Kavkaz Center website, a site that supports creation of a Sharia state in North Caucasus and hosts videos of terrorist attacks on Russian forces in the North Caucasus.[5][6]
  • During the December 2008 demonstrations in Vladivostok,[7] it was reported by the Kontury news website that FSB officers bbc issued a request that moderators of the ru_auto Internet community remove stories about the protests. The major reason, as reported by a moderator of the resource, was that repeating posts containing information about the protests worsened people's attitudes. The moderator in question requested bloggers to publish only unique posts about protest actions.[8]
  • In December 2009, Russian-based Internet provider Yota, with over 100,000 subscribers[9] blocked access to some Russian opposition Internet resources for its Moscow-based subscribers for a few days. This occurred after the chief prosecutor of St. Petersburg recommended that the company prevent access to extremist resources. The only Internet resource listed as extremist by the Ministry of Justice of Russia at the time was that of the Caucasian separatists, KavkazCenter.ru. Since the evening of 6 December 2009, Yota allowed access to all previously blocked resources except KavkazCenter.ru.[10][11]
2012
  • On 8 April 2012, it was confirmed by Roskomnadzor that several Russian and English Wikipedia articles had been blacklisted.[12]
  • In July 2012, the Russian State Duma passed the Bill 89417-6, which provided a blacklist of Internet sites.[13][14] The blacklist was officially launched in November 2012, despite criticism by major websites and NGOs.[15]
  • The IP address of Lurkmore.to (Lurkomorye) was blocked on 11 November 2012 after a decision of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia; the owner of the site told journalists he did not receive any communication from Roskomnadzor or the Federal Drug Control Service before the IP address was blacklisted.[16][17] Lurkmore.to was removed from the blacklist on 13 November 2012 after the website administrators deleted two marijuana-related articles.[18]
  • The IP address of the Librusec online library was blacklisted on 11 November 2012.[19] According to a leaked copy of the blacklist, it was blocked for a description of marijuana soup in a Russian translation of The Anarchist Cookbook.[20] The IP address was unblocked on 13 November after The Anarchist Cookbook was removed by Librusec administrators.[21][22]
2013
  • On 31 March 2013, The New York Times reported that Russia was "Selectively Blocking [the] Internet".[23]
  • On 5 April 2013, a spokesperson for Roskomnadzor confirmed that the Russian Wikipedia had been blacklisted because of the article, "Cannabis smoking".[24][25]
2014
  • In March 2014, in the midst of the Crimean crisis, the LiveJournal blog of Alexei Navalny, Kasparov.ru and Grani.ru were blocked by the government. These sites, which opposed the Russian government, were blocked for "making calls for unlawful activity and participation in mass events held with breaches of public order."[26]
  • On 2 December 2014, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned jw.org.
  • In August 2014, a number of websites were blocked as the war in Donbass developed, including the Ukrainian news site Glavnoe.ua,[27] a survey about the separation of the Caucasus from Russia[28] and numerous announcements and commentaries about the "march for Siberia federalisation".[29]
  • In 2014, a media blackout was launched against a performance art project called Monstration scheduled for 17 August. Roskomnadzor issued warnings to fourteen media outlets for reporting the announcement.[30] The project was compared to Euromaidan, which led to the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
  • In October 2014 Roskomnadzor blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine site, well known for its Archive.org website.[31] A number of websites listing blocked addresses was also blocked, including such as Zapretno.info.
  • In October and December 2014, a popular source code repository, GitHub, was temporarily blocked for hosting a page containing (mostly) satirical suicide instructions, frequently used to troll the Russian censorship system.[32]
  • In December 2014 a Facebook page protesting an event against the prosecution of Alexey Navalny was blocked in the Russian Federation. A Roskomnadzor representative stated that the page was blocked because it promoted an "unsanctioned mass event".[33]
  • Popular opposition websites encouraging protests against the court rulings in Bolotnaya Square case were blocked for "calling for illegal action"; Dumb Ways to Die, a public transport safety video, was blocked as "suicide propaganda"; websites discussing federalization of Siberia—as "attack on the foundations of the constitution"; an article on a gay activist being fired from job as well as LGBT support communities—as "propaganda of non-traditional sex relations"; publishing Pussy Riot logo—as "insult of the feelings of believers"; criticism of overspending of local governor—"disrespect of the authorities"; publishing a poem in support of Ukraine—"inciting hatred"[34][35]
2015
  • In January 2015, a number of Bitcoin related websites were blocked (including bitcoin.org) because "it contributes to shadow economy".[36] In February, Bitstamp was unblocked.[37]
  • In February 2015, Russia blacklisted "Children-404", a website providing Russia's LGBT teens with an outlet to anonymously share their personal experiences with one another, for allegedly violating the country's law against promoting homosexuality.[38]
  • An on-line article by Yulia Latynina in Novaya Gazeta was blocked for unspecified "extremism", most likely a suggestion that "Russian culture only became great when it mixed with European".[39]
  • After the Russian consumer protection watchdog OZPP published a warning for Russian tourists about possibility of being denied EU visas after visiting Crimea,[40] explaining that from the international law point of view Crimea is an occupied territory, Roskomnadzor blocked the OZPP's website "for threatening territorial integrity of the Russian Federation".[41]
  • In June 2015, some ISPs blocked the Internet Archive entirely following an order to censor an archived page for containing "extremist" material. These blocks were a side effect of the site's use of HTTPS possibly being incompatible with how ISPs implement their filters.[42]
  • On 21 July 2015 the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses was banned throughout the Russian Federation. Jehovah's Witnesses say that the motion to ban them was originally filed on 7 August 2013[43] but was overturned after they voluntarily removed certain publications from the version of the site presented to Russian IP addresses.[44] However, on 2 December 2014 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the Regional Court, stating that the Witnesses might choose to reinstate the materials they had volunteered to remove.[45]
  • On 12 August 2015 the whole of Reddit was blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor because of a post made by a Reddit user on the site. The post is a guide for growing Psilocybe mushrooms. The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor's demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post.[46][47]
  • As of August 2015, 4 Wikipedia articles remain blocked in Russia, and more than 25 were blocked for some time. Most of these articles are related to drugs and suicide.[48]
  • On 25 January 2016 Rutracker.org, the biggest torrent tracker in Russia and CIS countries, with about 13 million users, was permanently blocked by Roskomnadzor as a result of a decision of the Moscow City Court.[49]
2016
  • On 28 January 2016, pages related to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation were blocked on Archive.is when accessed through non-encrypted traffic. HTTPS traffic to the website was blocked entirely.[50]
  • On 4 August 2016, a Moscow court ruled that LinkedIn must be blocked in Russia because it stores the user data of Russian citizens outside of the country, in violation of the new data retention law. This ban was upheld on 10 November 2016.[51] and the ban was officially issued by Roskomnadzor on 17 November 2016.[52]
2017
  • In January Dailymotion was blocked[53]
  • In May LINE was blocked.[54][55]
  • In 2017 an image of Putin as a "gay clown" was added as item 4071 on Russia's Federal List of Extremist Material,[56] as a result of a 2016 legal case against social media activist A. V. Tsvetkov.[57]
2018
  • On 13 April 2018, messaging service Telegram was banned by court order for refusing to grant the Federal Security Service (FSB) access to encrypted user communications.[58][59] The ban has been enforced via the blockage of over 15.8 million IP addresses. IPs associated with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform are included in the block, due to Telegram's use of these platforms; this measure resulted in collateral damage due to usage of the platforms by other services in the country, including retail, Mastercard SecureCode, Mail.ru's TamTam messaging service, Twitch, and many other unknown websites being blocked for no reason for a month.[60][61]
2019
  • In August 2019 an interview with a Russian professor of philosophy about stoicism was blocked for alleged "propaganda of suicide"[62]
2020
2021
  • In July 2021, the official website of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny was blocked for promoting the Smart Voting strategy prior to the 2021 Russian legislative election.[67]
  • On 3 December 2021, the Russian government became the major stakeholder in the Russian internet company VK MAILRq.L, which runs the country's most popular social network VKontakte, resulting in the then-CEO Boris Dobrodeev to step down.[68]
  • In December 2021, the anonymity network Tor was blocked to some users, but not for everyone as of December 20, 2021.[69] This includes the Tor website, public relays, and some bridges. Other bridges, including ones that route via Microsoft Azure and WebRTC remained unblocked.
2022
2023

List of apps banned

See also

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  30. ^ "Authorities in Novosibirsk ban march to press for changing Siberia's status in Russia". The Siberian Times. 5 August 2014. from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
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This is a list of notable websites that have been blocked or censored in Russia including current and past blocks The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications Information Technology and Mass Media Roskomnadzor has maintained an official mandatory list since 2012 Websites can be blocked for obtaining child pornography materials advocating drug abuse and drug production items on the Federal List of Extremist Materials 1 2 Violations of data retention and surveillance laws citation needed or about fake information of war or invasion of Ukraine ISP block page translates to Access to the resource is limited on the basis of the Federal Law of July 27 2006 No 149 FZ on Information Information Technologies and Information Protection Find out why A number of websites that maintain lists of banned websites are currently blocked in Russia based on different sources of information 3 4 Contents 1 List 2 List of apps banned 3 See also 4 ReferencesList EditPrior to 2012 Blacklist entries as of June 2017 by agencies responsible for the entry In 2004 Russia pressured Lithuania and in 2006 Sweden into shutting down the Kavkaz Center website a site that supports creation of a Sharia state in North Caucasus and hosts videos of terrorist attacks on Russian forces in the North Caucasus 5 6 During the December 2008 demonstrations in Vladivostok 7 it was reported by the Kontury news website that FSB officers bbc issued a request that moderators of the ru auto Internet community remove stories about the protests The major reason as reported by a moderator of the resource was that repeating posts containing information about the protests worsened people s attitudes The moderator in question requested bloggers to publish only unique posts about protest actions 8 In December 2009 Russian based Internet provider Yota with over 100 000 subscribers 9 blocked access to some Russian opposition Internet resources for its Moscow based subscribers for a few days This occurred after the chief prosecutor of St Petersburg recommended that the company prevent access to extremist resources The only Internet resource listed as extremist by the Ministry of Justice of Russia at the time was that of the Caucasian separatists KavkazCenter ru Since the evening of 6 December 2009 Yota allowed access to all previously blocked resources except KavkazCenter ru 10 11 2012 On 8 April 2012 it was confirmed by Roskomnadzor that several Russian and English Wikipedia articles had been blacklisted 12 In July 2012 the Russian State Duma passed the Bill 89417 6 which provided a blacklist of Internet sites 13 14 The blacklist was officially launched in November 2012 despite criticism by major websites and NGOs 15 The IP address of Lurkmore to Lurkomorye was blocked on 11 November 2012 after a decision of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia the owner of the site told journalists he did not receive any communication from Roskomnadzor or the Federal Drug Control Service before the IP address was blacklisted 16 17 Lurkmore to was removed from the blacklist on 13 November 2012 after the website administrators deleted two marijuana related articles 18 The IP address of the Librusec online library was blacklisted on 11 November 2012 19 According to a leaked copy of the blacklist it was blocked for a description of marijuana soup in a Russian translation of The Anarchist Cookbook 20 The IP address was unblocked on 13 November after The Anarchist Cookbook was removed by Librusec administrators 21 22 2013 On 31 March 2013 The New York Times reported that Russia was Selectively Blocking the Internet 23 On 5 April 2013 a spokesperson for Roskomnadzor confirmed that the Russian Wikipedia had been blacklisted because of the article Cannabis smoking 24 25 2014 In March 2014 in the midst of the Crimean crisis the LiveJournal blog of Alexei Navalny Kasparov ru and Grani ru were blocked by the government These sites which opposed the Russian government were blocked for making calls for unlawful activity and participation in mass events held with breaches of public order 26 On 2 December 2014 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation banned jw org In August 2014 a number of websites were blocked as the war in Donbass developed including the Ukrainian news site Glavnoe ua 27 a survey about the separation of the Caucasus from Russia 28 and numerous announcements and commentaries about the march for Siberia federalisation 29 In 2014 a media blackout was launched against a performance art project called Monstration scheduled for 17 August Roskomnadzor issued warnings to fourteen media outlets for reporting the announcement 30 The project was compared to Euromaidan which led to the 2014 Ukrainian revolution In October 2014 Roskomnadzor blocked the Internet Archive s Wayback Machine site well known for its Archive org website 31 A number of websites listing blocked addresses was also blocked including such as Zapretno info In October and December 2014 a popular source code repository GitHub was temporarily blocked for hosting a page containing mostly satirical suicide instructions frequently used to troll the Russian censorship system 32 In December 2014 a Facebook page protesting an event against the prosecution of Alexey Navalny was blocked in the Russian Federation A Roskomnadzor representative stated that the page was blocked because it promoted an unsanctioned mass event 33 Popular opposition websites encouraging protests against the court rulings in Bolotnaya Square case were blocked for calling for illegal action Dumb Ways to Die a public transport safety video was blocked as suicide propaganda websites discussing federalization of Siberia as attack on the foundations of the constitution an article on a gay activist being fired from job as well as LGBT support communities as propaganda of non traditional sex relations publishing Pussy Riot logo as insult of the feelings of believers criticism of overspending of local governor disrespect of the authorities publishing a poem in support of Ukraine inciting hatred 34 35 2015 In January 2015 a number of Bitcoin related websites were blocked including bitcoin org because it contributes to shadow economy 36 In February Bitstamp was unblocked 37 In February 2015 Russia blacklisted Children 404 a website providing Russia s LGBT teens with an outlet to anonymously share their personal experiences with one another for allegedly violating the country s law against promoting homosexuality 38 An on line article by Yulia Latynina in Novaya Gazeta was blocked for unspecified extremism most likely a suggestion that Russian culture only became great when it mixed with European 39 After the Russian consumer protection watchdog OZPP published a warning for Russian tourists about possibility of being denied EU visas after visiting Crimea 40 explaining that from the international law point of view Crimea is an occupied territory Roskomnadzor blocked the OZPP s website for threatening territorial integrity of the Russian Federation 41 In June 2015 some ISPs blocked the Internet Archive entirely following an order to censor an archived page for containing extremist material These blocks were a side effect of the site s use of HTTPS possibly being incompatible with how ISPs implement their filters 42 On 21 July 2015 the official website of Jehovah s Witnesses was banned throughout the Russian Federation Jehovah s Witnesses say that the motion to ban them was originally filed on 7 August 2013 43 but was overturned after they voluntarily removed certain publications from the version of the site presented to Russian IP addresses 44 However on 2 December 2014 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the Regional Court stating that the Witnesses might choose to reinstate the materials they had volunteered to remove 45 On 12 August 2015 the whole of Reddit was blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor because of a post made by a Reddit user on the site The post is a guide for growing Psilocybe mushrooms The block was lifted the next day after Reddit complied with Roskomnadzor s demand of blocking access from users in Russia to the specific post 46 47 As of August 2015 update 4 Wikipedia articles remain blocked in Russia and more than 25 were blocked for some time Most of these articles are related to drugs and suicide 48 On 25 January 2016 Rutracker org the biggest torrent tracker in Russia and CIS countries with about 13 million users was permanently blocked by Roskomnadzor as a result of a decision of the Moscow City Court 49 2016 On 28 January 2016 pages related to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation were blocked on Archive is when accessed through non encrypted traffic HTTPS traffic to the website was blocked entirely 50 On 4 August 2016 a Moscow court ruled that LinkedIn must be blocked in Russia because it stores the user data of Russian citizens outside of the country in violation of the new data retention law This ban was upheld on 10 November 2016 51 and the ban was officially issued by Roskomnadzor on 17 November 2016 52 2017 In January Dailymotion was blocked 53 In May LINE was blocked 54 55 In 2017 an image of Putin as a gay clown was added as item 4071 on Russia s Federal List of Extremist Material 56 as a result of a 2016 legal case against social media activist A V Tsvetkov 57 2018 On 13 April 2018 messaging service Telegram was banned by court order for refusing to grant the Federal Security Service FSB access to encrypted user communications 58 59 The ban has been enforced via the blockage of over 15 8 million IP addresses IPs associated with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform are included in the block due to Telegram s use of these platforms this measure resulted in collateral damage due to usage of the platforms by other services in the country including retail Mastercard SecureCode Mail ru s TamTam messaging service Twitch and many other unknown websites being blocked for no reason for a month 60 61 2019 In August 2019 an interview with a Russian professor of philosophy about stoicism was blocked for alleged propaganda of suicide 62 2020 In early 2020 Russia blocked several encrypted email services including Proton Mail 63 claiming it had been used to send fake anonymous bomb threats 64 Tutanota 65 and Mailfence 66 2021 In July 2021 the official website of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny was blocked for promoting the Smart Voting strategy prior to the 2021 Russian legislative election 67 On 3 December 2021 the Russian government became the major stakeholder in the Russian internet company VK MAILRq L which runs the country s most popular social network VKontakte resulting in the then CEO Boris Dobrodeev to step down 68 In December 2021 the anonymity network Tor was blocked to some users but not for everyone as of December 20 2021 69 This includes the Tor website public relays and some bridges Other bridges including ones that route via Microsoft Azure and WebRTC remained unblocked 2022 In March 2022 amid its invasion of Ukraine Russia began to increasingly block international news outlets such as BBC News Russian Deutsche Welle and RFE RL including Current Time and Twitter was restricted These actions are intended primarily to curtail the dissemination of information that is inconsistent with the Government of Russia s official positions and statements Roskomnadzor also ordered that Facebook be blocked for its discrimination toward Russian media in retaliation for restricting the accessibility of pages for Russian state media outlets such as Russia Today 70 71 Twitter launched an onion service in response 72 Helsingin Sanomat 73 Ilta Sanomat 73 Yle News including the English language section Yle News Russian Yle Novosti Finnish Yle Uutiset and Swedish Svenska Yle 73 Website of S T A L K E R 2 Heart of Chornobyl 74 2023 Roskomnadzor denied the above pages are blocked however various testing methods contradict this 75 76 77 78 During the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin in June Roskomnadzor blocked access to Google News websites of the Patriot media group as well as the public pages of Wagner Group 79 80 New law bans foreign messenger use in government agencies and organizations RKN notes Discord Microsoft Teams Skype for Business Snapchat Telegram Threema Viber WhatsApp and WeChat as examples 81 82 List of apps banned EditWeChat was banned for a week in 2017 83 Telegram 2018 2020 JW Library app was banned on March 31 2021 Alexei Navalny app 84 Line software 2023 Discord Microsoft Teams Skype for Business Snapchat Telegram Threema Viber WhatsApp WeChat within government organizationsSee also EditList of Wikipedia pages banned in Russia Media freedom in Russia Russian foreign agent law Great FirewallReferences Edit Paul Goble 29 March 2015 FSB Increasingly Involved in Misuse of Anti Extremism Laws SOVA Says The Interpreter Magazine Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 Retrieved 1 April 2015 Examples of 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