Roskomnadzor has restricted access on the territory of the Russian Federation to the website of The Bell*, report “Vedomosti”. RKN also blocked the website of Ukrainian eSports team Natus Vincere (NaVi),
The reasons for the blockage are not specified.
The business publication Bell* was founded in 2017 by former editor-in-chief of RBC and former editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti site, Elizaveta Osetinskaya*.
At the beginning of March last year, the editors of the publication, against the background of the adoption of amendments to the Criminal Code criminalizing the dissemination of false information about the Russian military, announced the cessation of coverage of hostilities in Ukraine , focusing on the economic consequences of the conflict.
“We continue to work and cover the consequences of what is happening. First, economic,” the statement read.
On December 9, 2022, the Ministry of Justice entered La Cloche* in the register of “foreign agents”. Even earlier, on April 1, 2022, the publication’s editor Elizaveta Osetinskaya* was declared a “foreign agent”.
Also in Russia, access to the website of Ukrainian eSports team Natus Vincere (NaVi), in which Russian players also play, has been restricted. informed CASS. The ministry’s database does not indicate what the blockage is related to.
*- included by the Ministry of Justice of Russia in the register of foreign agents
