Riga Court upholds former Moscow mayor’s ban from LatviaThe Riga District Court closed a civil suit in which Yury Luzhkov required Latvian officials to cancel his ban from the country, RIA Novosti reports citing major Latvian media.14:03 01.08.2014
Telecom regulator unblocks major Russian torrent trackersThe Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has unblocked torrent tracker Rutracker.ru and several other torrent resources after they deleted pirated content, the regulator announced on its website.12:58 01.07.2014
Opposition-minded online newspaper demands that court unblock its siteThe 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.13:46 11.06.2014
EU says visa sanctions not to target Russian citizens - officialThe EU has confirmed that a visa ban would not affect the average Russian even though talks on visa-free travel had been suspended over Ukraine., according to the EU envoy to Russia Vygaudas Usackas.11:30 19.05.2014
Japan imposes visa sanctions on 23 Russian officialsThe Japanese Government has introduced a visa ban for 23 Russian officials in the wake of the situation in Ukraine. The names of the officials have not been revealed.12:20 29.04.2014
Russian communications regulator blocks several Ukrainian nationalist websitesRussian 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.10:52 28.04.2014
Magnitsky list’s investigator to file defamation suit in Russian courtFormer Interior Ministry investigator Pavel Karpov is ready to file a defamation suit against William Browder and Jamieson Firestone and their companies Hermitage Capital Management Limited and Management UK Limited.10:27 17.04.2014
EU mulls more Russian lawmakers and journalists for sanction list - reportThe EU is considering sanctions for over 100 Russians, including MPs, members of the Russian Security Council, law enforcement staff and journalists, Kommersant newspaper wrote on Wednesday.10:16 09.04.2014
About 3,700 pro-suicide websites closed by Russian regulatorAround 3,700 websites containing pro-suicide information have been closed in Russia since November 2012, according to the website of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor).10:36 21.02.2014
US lawmakers propose expanding Magnitsky Act to all countriesUS senators John McCain and Ben Cardin have submitted a bill to the US Congress that would potentially broaden the scope of the Magnitsky Act to all countries.12:52 17.01.2014
US Embassy in Moscow cannot confirm Magnitsky List curbThe US Embassy in Moscow could not officially confirm the information that the White House allegedly decided to halt the expansion of so-called Magnitsky List.13:41 20.12.2013
Magnitsky List may grow by year's end says US ambassadorThe United States could broaden the number of Russian officials included on a travel blacklist by the end of this year, the US ambassador in Moscow said Wednesday.14:12 11.12.2013
There are no blacklists of banks for license recall - officialThere are no black lists of banks the licenses of which the Central Bank may revoke, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said Wednesday at a meeting with the heads of the largest Russian banks.11:37 28.11.2013
Petition to lift sanctions on Russian singer gets 100,000 signaturesA petition to the Obama Administration to lift economic sanctions on Russian singer Grigory Leps has received the required 100,000 signatures to be reviewed by the White House staff.13:32 25.11.2013
Internet-freedom watchdog reports 83k ‘unlawful’ website blacklistingsIn the year since an Internet blacklist was activated by Russia’s communication watchdog Roskomnadzor, more than 83,000 websites have been blocked without appropriate legal justification, head of the ‘RosKomSvoboda” NGO Artyom Kozlyuk.16:15 05.11.2013
More than 14,000 websites blacklisted by Russian regulatorMore than 14,000 online resources have been blacklisted in the year that has passed since the activation of Roskomnadzor’s website blacklist.14:12 01.11.2013
US Treasury blacklists Russian pop starRussian pop singer Grigory Leps has been placed on a blacklist of sorts by the US Treasury Department on suspicion of having ties with organized crime, US Treasury spokesman John Sullivan told RIA Novosti on Thursday.10:31 31.10.2013
Website blocking is ineffective measure - telecom regulatorWebsite blocking under the anti-piracy law is ineffective measure and it can be used only as a last resort, Maxim Ksenzov, deputy head of the Federal Service for Telecom, IT and Mass Communications Supervision (Roskomnadzor), said at the conference "Right to Download" on Tuesday.13:48 17.09.2013
Second website to be blocked in Russia under anti-piracy lawRussia's federal communications agency Roskomnadzor will block Rutor.org file-sharing website under the anti-piracy law, RAPSI's sister agency Digit.ru reported on Monday.16:24 26.08.2013
Ukraine bans US musician for 5 years for flag desecrationA US musician who apparently desecrated the Ukrainian flag has been banned from entering the country for five years, the Ukrainian Security Service reported.10:19 07.08.2013