In Russia, on the night of Friday, March 4, the website of the Deutsche Welle media company, whose broadcasting in the Russian Federation was previously a consumer, probably began to be blocked, and employees of the Moscow office lost their accreditation. The websites of Radio Liberty and a number of other media outlets were also blocked. This is reported by Globalcheck and the ZaTelecom Telegram channel. The level of access to the DW website, according to Globalcheck, fell to 0 percent, and to the Radio Liberty website to 83 percent.
In the Russian Federation, the social network Facebook, the sites of the Meduza publication, the Russian service of the BBC, also accidentally ended up for some users. The accessibility of Meduza and the BBC websites, according to Globalcheck, is 17 percent, and Facebook is 37 percent. In addition, the majority of users have stopped opening the App Store and Google Play app stores.
Roskomnadzor on March 1, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked the website of the Dozhd TV channel, and Ekho Moskvy was taken off the air. According to the agency, there were materials on TV channels and radio stations with calls for extremist activities and false information about the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine. After that, Dozhd temporarily suspended work, and the liquidation council liquidated Ekho Moskvy and the radio station’s website. Roskomnadzor also removed the Echo of Moscow app.
Because of the coverage of the war in Ukraine
In addition, on March 1, Roskomnadzor blocked the Taiga.info website due to publications about the war in Ukraine. Before this blocking, the site of the student magazine Doxa was exposed “because of a guide about how you love with relatives and colleagues who believe in Russian propaganda.”
The sites of Present Time, New Times, Krym.Realii and the Russian-language version of Interfax-Ukraine were also blocked. At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ukrainian publications Gordon, Correspondent and Ukrainska Pravda were included in the register of banned sites.
Roskomnadzor also removed materials from Novaya Gazeta, Mediazona, Dozhd and other media for what they called war in Ukraine.
Roskomnadzor from Telegram removed bots with information about the Russian military, “supposedly are on the list of those detained or killed during use in Ukraine.” This was reported in the Telegram channel of the regulator.
The department that such telegrams “are aimed at collecting assumptions about the opinions and members of their families, cynically playing on the feelings of other close people.” The collected information can be used for illegal actions, involvement in the process.
Roskomnadzor has not yet commented on the rationale for the situation.
DW remains in dialogue with the Russians
Deutsche Welle CEO Peter Limburg addressed the citizens of Russia on March 3, recalling that the media company is not a government media outlet and sees its mission in protecting freedom of speech and free access to information. “We pay special attention to constant dialogue with people in Russia.
DW has been partnering with Psiphon since 2012 to provide its readers with access to blocked content on both DW and other platforms. In particular, DW offers various options for users to choose Psiphon technologies and access censored information. The Psiphon software is included in the DW app designed for iOS and Android users. Thus, users in countries with censorship, thanks to the application, have full access to articles, videos and other materials related to DW.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
During the first week of the war, with the start of the Russian military aggression in Ukraine, according to the UN, more than one of the first pieces of news that started the morning of the eighth day was lost. This photo was taken at the railway station in Kyiv on the eve of March 2.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
Help people from Ukraine, volunteers train from neighboring Poland to Germany. This photo was taken in Berlin. Refugees can get free tickets to continue their trip to visit relatives or friends. Who has nowhere to go, to reach their destination and temporary displacement.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
In the other place. Male volunteers are returning to Ukraine from abroad to keep the country in their hands. This photo was taken on March 2 at the Polish-Ukrainian border near the village of Medyka.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
On March 3, the second round of talks between Ukraine and Russia will take place in Belarus in the evening. The parties managed to agree on a number of humanitarian issues, including the possibility of temporarily completing the mission to organize humanitarian corridors. “We agreed to continue the aggravation already at the beginning of the round in the near future,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
A destroyed residential building in the village of Borodyanka in the Buchansky district of the Kiev region, on March 3.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
The village of Gorenka near Kiev was in 1552. Before the start of the war, about five thousand people lived in it. The courtyard of one of the houses after the shelling, March 2.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
81-year-old resident of this village – French teacher Petr Vyerko is ready to build his house and loved ones in Gorenka with the need in hand.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
Mother with birth in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, March 2. The girl was born in the basement of the hospital, which became a maternity ward during the war.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
Russian military equipment of Ukraine is somewhere on the territory. Photo of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, March 3. The day before, official data on losses in the army were published in Moscow – an order of magnitude lower than those reported by the Ukrainian authorities. Several hundred or already several thousand …. It is impossible to verify this information in combat conditions.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
The monitoring trip of the United Nations to set up a person in a trap perceives and collects information about casualties among the population. As of March 1, since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than two hundred people have died, more than five hundred people have been injured. The photo shows the destruction in the city of Irpen in the Kiev region, on March 2.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
As a sign of support and solidarity from the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles and the Duchess, Camilla received the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and community in London on March 2.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
On Thursday, March 3, the International Paralympic Committee changed the day before the decision on the admission of athletes from Russia and Belarus to the Games in Beijing in a neutral status and removed them from the participants in these competitions. IPC President Andrew Parsons said: “It is clear that the rapidly escalating situation puts us in a unique and impossible critical position before the game begins.”
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
The EU countries are implementing the protocol in relation to the immediate environment of the Russian Federation. According to Forbes, the 156-meter yacht Dilbar Alisher Usmanov was detained in Hamburg. She has been in this city for repairs since October 2021. Later, the French authorities announced the confiscation of the Amore Vero yachts, previously the Princess Olga, owned by Igor Sechin
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
On the morning of the third day, it was announced that the Echo of Moscow Council of Ministers had announced that the radio channel and website would be liquidated. Editor-in-Chief Alexei Venediktov announced this on his Telegram channel. Earlier, Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of the Ekho Moskvy radio station and the Dozhd TV channel due to coverage of the war against Ukraine, which did not suit the Russian authorities.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
Protests continue in Russia. According to the human rights project “OVD-Info”, on March 2 alone, more than 700 people were detained throughout the country. This photo was taken in St. Petersburg.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
Prayer for peace in the Vatican on Ash Wednesday – the first day of Lent. “He who assumes war forgets about humanity, does not come from the people, does not see the concrete life of people, but puts private interests and power above all else. Pope Francis a few days ago, announced the action.
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War in Ukraine – 03.03.2022
The colors of the national flag of Ukraine – around the world. From the distribution of such photographs today we flew from the American Los Angeles.
Author: Nikolay Permyakov