Russia - How far will the crackdown on dissent go?

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that the opposition news websites Grani.ru, Kasparov.ru and EJ.ru are being blocked. The communications regulatory agency Roskomnadzor announced this evening that they “have been added to the unified register of banned content at the request of the prosecutor general's office of the Russian Federation.” Well-known opposition leader Alexei Navalny's blog on LiveJournal is also being blocked. “It is clear from the blocking of these sites a day after (...)

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