Against the background of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian authorities have forbidden the media to call the hostilities “war. Officially, it is called a “special operation in Ukraine. Journalists were also required to report only information about the conflict disseminated by official Russian sources.
Because of the refusal to remove information about the hostilities, the websites of two projects of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty media corporation were blocked: “Real Time” and Krym.Realii. The Dozhd TV channel and the Echo Moskvy radio station stopped broadcasting. The websites of Voice of America, Meduza, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Mediazone and others have been blocked.
Roskomnadzor also blocked access to the social networks Facebook and Twitter.