Sunday, February 18, 2018

55 61 147 | Instagram submits to Russia censor's demands, February 18, 2018


Instagram has blocked posts in Russia relating to corruption claims made by the country's most prominent opposition leader.

It follows a demand by the country's internet censor that the Facebook-owned service restrict access to posts on its platform connected to allegations made by Alexei Navalny.

The controversy followed a YouTube video posted by Mr Navalny's Anti-corruption Foundation last week that allegedly shows the billionaire Oleg Deripaska meeting with Russia's deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko aboard a yacht.


Some ISPs have already taken such action against Mr Navalny's own website to comply with an order by Russia's communications regulator, Roskomnadzor.

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