The Telegraph is the first British newspaper to be banned in the country
Russian authorities have blocked The Telegraph’s website for its reporting of the war in Ukraine.
The country’s communications watchdog confirmed on Tuesday that it had ordered internet providers to block telegraph.co.uk after a statement from the Prosecutor General that the newspaper had been “disseminating false information about a special military operation by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine”.
The move was triggered by the prosecutor banning an article the Telegraph published on Feb 23 – the day before Russia invaded Ukraine - about mobile crematoriums poised to be deployed in the war.
The prosecutor ruled the article contained “false information” and entered it on the list of "banned information".
The Telegraph is the first British newspaper to have its website officially blocked in Russia.
The company said: "The Telegraph is proud of its reporting of the invasion of Ukraine and regrets attempts by Russia to restrict press freedom".
Last week a number of The Telegraph’s staff, including Chris Evans, the editor, were banned from ever entering the country along with a number of other British media figures.
Other major British publications were still accessible online on Tuesday morning. The BBC has been blocked since early March.
Although press freedoms have been disappearing for years in Russia, the crackdown has scaled up significantly since the war began.
In the first week of the war, Russian authorities shut down Ekho Mosvky, a news radio station, and Dozhd, Russia’s only independent news TV channel.
A week later, the Kremlin passed a censorship law making it a crime for any media outlet to call its “special military campaign” in Ukraine a “war” or an “invasion”. Violators face up to a decade in prison.
Online access to other reputable Russian news media has also been blocked, and hundreds of journalists working for outlets critical of the Kremlin have fled the country, fearing criminal prosecution.
Independent media in Russia can now be only accessed while using VPNs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/06/21/russia-blocks-telegraphs-website-war-coverage/
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