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Twitter agrees to block access to extremist accounts in Russia

17:27 23/06/2014 Microblogging service Twitter Inc. has agreed to block access in Russia to accounts of about a dozen extremist organizations, including Ukraine’s Right Sector, head of the telecom regulator Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov told journalists.

Opposition-minded online newspaper demands that court unblock its site

13:46 11/06/2014 The online newspaper Kasparov.ru has filed a suit with the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow to overturn the decisions of the Prosecutor General’s Office and Roskomnadzor, which led to the blocking of the newspaper’s website, the plaintiff’s lawyer, Damir Gainutdinov, told RIA Novosti.

Tajik authorities again block YouTube

10:19 11/06/2014 Access to the YouTube video hosting service was partially blocked in Tajikistan on Tuesday, the chairman of the Tajik Association of Internet Providers, Asomiddin Atoev, told RIA Novosti.

US authorities charge Russian national with hacking

10:22 03/06/2014 The US Justice Department on Monday charged a Russian national, Evgeniy Bogachev, with committing cybercrimes, Reuters reports.

Russian social media mogul Pavel Durov sues ex-partners over Telegram messenger

10:33 02/06/2014 The founder of Russian social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, has filed a suit with a US court in which he accuses his former partners at United Capital Partners (UCP) of fraud and attempted extortion with respect to the Telegram messenger.

EU citizens can now conceal their personal data from Google search

11:00 30/05/2014 Last night, Google launched a new service for EU residents that allows concealing web pages with personal data from search results, AFP reports.

Russian company sues US firm over Cyrillic domain name registration issues

15:28 29/05/2014 Samara, Russia based Legato has filed a lawsuit with the Samara Region Commercial Court, requesting that US company Public Interest Registry be banned from registering zona.org (зона.орг) Cyrillic domain names, citing available registered trademarks.

Germany wants Zuckerberg to testify in NSA case - report

10:33 23/05/2014 Members of the German parliamentary commission, which is investigating the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) questionable activity, want the heads of US high-tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Google, to testify to the Bundestag, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Russian lawmaker proposes ban on foreign accounts for media owners

15:03 20/05/2014 State Duma member Yevgeny Fyodorov has proposed banning owners of Russian media from opening foreign bank accounts, a rule currently applied to government officials. He made the proposal at a State Duma meeting on Tuesday.

Websites can be closed even if they delete pirated content

11:46 20/05/2014 A working group at the Communications Ministry is drafting a law to allow the courts to close websites that post pirated content even if they regularly delete it, Izvestia newspaper writes on Tuesday.

New ‘Bloggers Law’ to embrace Russian bloggers based abroad – report

13:01 16/05/2014 Popular Russian bloggers who post on Russian websites and write in one of the languages used by Russian nationals are subject to the new ‘Bloggers Law’ even if they live abroad, a government official told Izvestia on Friday.

Suspension of Russian TV channels upheld in Ukraine

16:31 15/05/2014 Kiev's Administrative Court of Appeals upheld suspension of four Russian TV channels in Ukraine, Head of the National Council of Ukraine on television and radio broadcasting Vladimir Manzhosov told journalists on Thursday.

Russian communications regulator blocks several Ukrainian nationalist websites

10:52 28/04/2014 Russian telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, has blocked the access to more than ten Ukrainian websites containing calls for mass riots in Russia, the Siberian Federal District Department of Russia’s Prosecutor General's Office reported.

Former Russian Microsoft employee to be sentenced in US for data theft on June 10

15:48 22/04/2014 Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee from Russia, who was charged with theft of trade secrets, to be sentenced in the US on June 10.

Russian lawmakers mull constant volume level for programs and commercials

11:01 22/04/2014 The Russian government has submitted a draft law to the State Duma that requires television commercials to have the same average sound level as the programs they accompany, the lower house said on its website Monday.

Russia equates popular bloggers to media resources

17:39 18/04/2014 Russian parliament on Friday passed the bill that would require bloggers with a daily audience of more than 3,000 people to take on full responsibilities of media resources.

Putin answers Snowden’s question about mass online surveillance

16:48 17/04/2014 The use of special equipment, in particular, for the tapping of private conversations and for surveillance, is regulated by law in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said when answering Edward Snowden’s question during the annual Direct Line program on Thursday.

Education ministry proposes monitoring websites frequented by students

12:32 17/04/2014 Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science has proposed monitoring the websites that are most popular among school and university students, reads a statement published on the government’s website of planned legislation on Thursday.

Ukrainian court upholds suspension of Russian TV channels

16:09 15/04/2014 The District Administrative Court of Kiev on Tuesday declined to revoke the temporary suspension of four Russian TV channels in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported from the courtroom.

Moscow court agrees opposition actvist Navalny’s blog should be closed

13:28 11/04/2014 The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by opposition stalwart Alexei Navalny challenging the blocking of his LiveJournal blog.

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