BAJ website censored in Russia

Accord­ing to the human rights project OVD News, the list of blocked web­sites includes the web­sites of the St. Peters­burg edi­to­r­i­al office of Novaya Gaze­ta, the mir­ror site of Svo­bod­nye Media, the Ukrain­ian web­site Istorich­na Prav­da, Radio Liberty’s Votvot project, as well as the web­sites of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists and the Homel-based Flagsh­tok media.

Ear­li­er, the Belaru­sian author­i­ties rec­og­nized the infor­ma­tion prod­ucts of the above-men­tioned Belaru­sian sites as “extrem­ist mate­ri­als”.

Accord­ing to Roskom­nad­zor, the block­ade began on June 17.

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Due to state pres­sure, there is hard­ly any crit­i­cal online media in Rus­sia that is not blocked by Roskom­nad­zor. As a result, Russ­ian users are increas­ing­ly forced to use VPNs to get objec­tive infor­ma­tion.

At the same time, more and more media projects, includ­ing on Telegram and YouTube chan­nels, emerge in exile.

At the begin­ning of the year, Roskom­nad­zor blocked the web­site of the Belaru­sian por­tal Reform.by in Rus­sia. As a response, “cyber-guer­ril­las” hacked into the inter­nal net­work of the Main Radio Fre­quen­cy Cen­ter, which is part of the watch­dog, and down­loaded some 1.2 TB of data. It turned out that the Russ­ian author­i­ties close­ly mon­i­tor the Belaru­sian media sphere and inter­fere in the work of the inde­pen­dent Belaru­sian media.

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