The Roskomsvoboda project has been recognized as another "foreign agent". The organization's specialists have been defending freedom of information online for many years and tell how the authorities are increasingly restricting it. One of the latest publications of Roskomsvoboda is devoted to the actions of the Prosecutor General's Office, which, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, adopted an unremarkable resolution – on its basis, thousands of sites and links to materials that told about the events taking place in Ukraine in a way that was not required were blocked. Russian authorities. 9.3 thousand Internet resources fell under military censorship. Sargis Darbinyan, a leading lawyer at Roskomsvoboda, told The Insider about this.
“For 10 years we have consistently defended the right to freedom of information and privacy, fought against Internet censorship and criticized the many dubious laws that enslave the Runet and its inhabitants. In today's realities, this is quite enough to become a "foreign agent" in the face of the state machine and receive this shameful stigma. I think our latest analytical work served as a catalyst, in which we showed how the Prosecutor General's Office increased online censorship over the past year.
For us, entering the register does not change anything. We will continue to do what we have always done: watch the bystanders, protect those who need our help, and equip Runet users with the tools to reclaim the right to freedom of information and privacy.”