MOSCOW, May 12 (RAPSI) – Access to Internet site Krym.Realii, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty project, has been blocked in Russia, Natalya Poklonskaya, the Crimean Prosecutor, told RIA Novosti news agency on Thursday.

Earlier, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has initiated a criminal case against Nikolay Semena, a Krym.Realii journalist, over public calls for undertaking extremist activities. The Crimea’s Republican Prosecutor’s Office collected respective materials and submitted them to the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) asking this Internet regulator to launch the procedures necessary to block access to this web site in the territory of the Russian Federation. 

“At this time, Roskomnadzor is undertaking measures to block access to this information resource,”- Poklonskaya said.

Krym.Realii is a project launched by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in March 2014. The editorial board of the site is in Kiyev.