Russian censor’s attempts to silence home-grown federalists backfire Halya Coynash Federalization, which the Kremlin is so aggressively pushing for Ukraine, is clearly a dirty word closer to Moscow. A word that can get civic activists and those who report their peaceful protest plans, into trouble. Nonetheless the current feverish moves seen by the Russian Prosecutor General to block all mention of home-grown calls for real federalization are proving spectacularly counter-productive At least 15 websites, including Ukraine’s TSN.ua, have received formal warnings from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media and Internet surveillance body demanding that they withdraw publications reporting an initiative by Artem Loskutov and some other activists in Siberia who are planning to hold a ‘March in support of Siberian Federalization. According to TSN.ua, it was warned that access to its site would be blocked if they did not remove the information. This was based on a demand from the Prosecutor General’s Office from Aug 1. The publication was deemed to ‘contain calls to mass disturbances, to carry out extremist activities, take part in mass (public) events, with infringement of the established procedure”. khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1407025405
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 10:58:03 +0000
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