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Russia has warned BuzzFeed that it will ban access to the entire site over a post published on Wednesday about a deadly gunfight in the capital of Chechnya.
BuzzFeed received an email on Friday from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal communications agency, saying that the post “contains appeals to mass riots, extremist activities or participation in mass (public) actions held with infringement of the established order.” It cited statutes laid out by the prosecutor general’s office and said access to the site “is restricted by communications service providers in the territory of the Russian Federation.” It has given BuzzFeed 24 hours to remove the post or face a total ban.
The article, published late Wednesday and updated on Thursday, uses reports, video and social media posts to tell the story of a shootout between Islamist rebels in Grozny, the Chechen capital, and Russian troops. The attack was the largest in years in the Chechen capital, which has been rebuilt by Chechnya’s authoritarian ruler Ramzan Kadyrov following years of war.
The story includes a video hosted by YouTube by Kavkaz Center, the rebels’ online mouthpiece, which is banned in Russia. As of Friday afternoon, the video had been removed by YouTube and replaced with a phrase saying it violated YouTube’s terms of service. BuzzFeed has removed the video since it has been disabled. The email from Roskomnadzor does not make clear if it objects to the whole post, or to certain video or other materials that appear in the post.
Earlier this week, Russia briefly banned Vimeo because it hosted an ISIS propaganda video. It also briefly banned Github for a post that it said violated a law on promoting suicide. It has also recently toughened laws on internet policing. It has also targeted local news sites, banning access to several that have been critical of Vladimir Putin. Russia maintains a list of blacklisted websites.
The email from Roskomnadzor, sent to BuzzFeed’s “community help” and “editorial feedback” email addresses, is posted below:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/russia-threatens-to-ban-buzzfeed
Russia has warned BuzzFeed that it will ban access to the entire site over a post published on Wednesday about a deadly gunfight in the capital of Chechnya.
BuzzFeed received an email on Friday from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal communications agency, saying that the post “contains appeals to mass riots, extremist activities or participation in mass (public) actions held with infringement of the established order.” It cited statutes laid out by the prosecutor general’s office and said access to the site “is restricted by communications service providers in the territory of the Russian Federation.” It has given BuzzFeed 24 hours to remove the post or face a total ban.
The article, published late Wednesday and updated on Thursday, uses reports, video and social media posts to tell the story of a shootout between Islamist rebels in Grozny, the Chechen capital, and Russian troops. The attack was the largest in years in the Chechen capital, which has been rebuilt by Chechnya’s authoritarian ruler Ramzan Kadyrov following years of war.
The story includes a video hosted by YouTube by Kavkaz Center, the rebels’ online mouthpiece, which is banned in Russia. As of Friday afternoon, the video had been removed by YouTube and replaced with a phrase saying it violated YouTube’s terms of service. BuzzFeed has removed the video since it has been disabled. The email from Roskomnadzor does not make clear if it objects to the whole post, or to certain video or other materials that appear in the post.
Earlier this week, Russia briefly banned Vimeo because it hosted an ISIS propaganda video. It also briefly banned Github for a post that it said violated a law on promoting suicide. It has also recently toughened laws on internet policing. It has also targeted local news sites, banning access to several that have been critical of Vladimir Putin. Russia maintains a list of blacklisted websites.
The email from Roskomnadzor, sent to BuzzFeed’s “community help” and “editorial feedback” email addresses, is posted below:
BuzzFeed replied to the email asking what precisely Roskomnadzor objected to, and noted that the YouTube video had been disabled. Several hours later, we received this reply: