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The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications ( Russian Федеральная служба по надзору в сфере связи, информационных технологий и массовых коммуникаций shortly Роскомнадзор / Roskomnadzor is) the Russian regulator for mass media , telecommunications and data protection .

The authority, based in Moscow , was founded in 2008. It authorizes and supervises mass media and can also block websites in Russia; During a campaign against Telegram , up to 10 million IP addresses in Russia were blocked. The chairman until March 2020 was Alexander Alexandrowitsch Sharov . After Sharov left (which was also during the COVID-19 pandemic ) in his post as CEO of Gazprom Media , the number of blocked websites is said to have fallen from almost 20,000 per day to zero in the short term. Andrei Lipow , one of the initiators of the Sovereign Runet , which can be filtered by the authority thanks to a law that came into force in November 2019, was appointed as the new director in March 2020.

The authority can shut down media that commit more than one violation of the law within a year. This also includes violations of a law that forbids swearing in Russia. In July 2015, one word was criticized in a literary review by the government-critical Novaya Gazeta , which threatened to close the newspaper ex officio.

January 2020, the Authority announced the blocking of e-mail - service protonmail known.

After the Russian supervisory authority Roskomnadzor applied for a ban on mailbox.org in December 2019 , Mailbox.org announced in January 2020 that it would be represented in a legal dispute because it regards the authority's actions as an attempt to censor the Internet . In February 2020, Roskomnadzor withdrew the blocking application filed against mailbox.org after mailbox.org agreed to have its own publicly visible web imprint data entered in the Russian telecommunications directory.

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  1. ↑ Russians Selectively Blocking Internet (New York Times)
  2. ↑ Firefighters move to Shmarovs , Novaya Gazeta, March 24, 2020
  3. ↑ Your sweet censor , Novaya Gazeta, March 26, 2020
  4. ↑ Mishustin appointed a new head of Roskomnadzor. It was Andrei Lipov from the Presidential Administration , Novaya Gazeta, March 29, 2020
  5. ↑ The Dream of the Great Russian Firewall , FAZ, May 30, 2019
  6. ↑ David Nauer: Damn it, Mr. Putin! , Basler Zeitung , June 19, 2015, accessed December 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ Novaya Gazeta Could Face Closure After Second Government Warning , The Moscow Times, July 21, 2015, accessed December 8, 2017.
  8. ↑ Nowaja Gazeta receives another warning from the Russian media regulator ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Eurasiablog.de, July 21, 2015, accessed December 8, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eurasiablog.de
  9. ↑ Russia blocks encrypted email service ProtonMail . In: Reuters . January 29, 2020 ( reuters.com [accessed April 5, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Roskomnadzor withdraws blocking application against mailbox.org - mailbox.org. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Russian supervisory authority Roskomnadzor applies to the court to block mailbox.org - mailbox.org. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Max Hoppenstedt: Russia threatens German e-mail provider with network blocking. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Russian supervisory authority Roskomnadzor applies to the court to block mailbox.org - mailbox.org. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .