Websites of several media outlets blocked in occupied Crimea
The websites of ATR TV channel, QHA Crimean Tatar information resource, Events of Crimea online media outlet are blocked on the territory of the occupied Crimea. Crimea.Realities news portal, which is the project of Radio Liberty, is partially blocked.
As 15 Minutes Crimean newspaper reports, the access to the website of ATR TV channel has been blocked since August 3.
“The network address that allows to identify a site on the Internet was included into the unified register of domain names, indexes of pages of sites on the Internet and network addresses that allow to identify sites on the Internet containing the information the spread of which is prohibited in the Russian Federation,” reads the message which appears on the screen after trying to enter the site.
Moreover, the access to QHA Crimean Tatar information resource has been blocked in the occupied peninsula.
August 2, editor-in-chief of Events of Crimea media outlet Ruslan Yuhosh posted on Facebook that the website of the outlet had been blocked in Crimea for the third time.
August 2, Radio Liberty reported that the access to its project Crimea.Realities had been partially blocked in Crimea.
However, the website of the Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications of Russia contains no reports on blocking the Crimea.Realities site.
Radio Liberty reminds that on July 30, the Moscow-controlled prosecutor’s office of the annexed Crimean reported that restricted access to 60 Internet resources with alleged extremist content had been initiated in the first half of the year.
