The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia has limited access to Ekho Moskvy and Dozhd*
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia from Roskomnadzor restricts access to the Ekho Moskvy radio station and the Dozhd TV channel (recognized as a “foreign agent” in Russia). False information about the actions of the Russian military as part of a “special operation to protect the DPR and LPR” was found in the register.
The agency states that media websites “contain calls for extremism, violence against citizens of the Russian Federation, massive violation of public order and public safety, as well as for warning citizens of the Russian Federation in mass public events in connection with violation of laws and coercion to overthrow the constitutional order.”
The prosecutor’s office also appealed to the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network, Roskomnadzor and Gazprom-Media with a demand “to bring closer the elimination of the admitted cases, as well as the causes and conditions that contributed to them, almost to the point of direct perception.”
Roskomnadzor reported that it had already restricted access to the media site. Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, said that the radio station has not yet received reports of claims from the Prosecutor General’s Office.
“Usually, the editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow website receives such restrictions, but he didn’t tell me anything about this. We don’t observe anything. We observe as (receipts),” Venediktov told Interfax.
A little later, Venediktov announced that Ekho Moskvy had been taken off the air.
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The editors of Dozhd reported that they received it.
He threatened to block Mediazone, Dozhd (both recognized as “foreign agents”), Ekho Moskvy and Novaya Gazeta on the share of Roskomnadzor.
In the department in this case, that the media posted incorrect information about the shelling of Ukrainian cities and the coverage of world residents of Ukraine as a result of the actions of the Russian army,
Earlier, Roskomnadzor began to restrain the work of Twitter and Facebook in Russia because of the content about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.