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Russia: Khimki Local Provider Blocked Environmentalist Website

Written byAlexey Sidorenko
Posted 7 December 2010 11:23 GMT

Telincom, Khimki city Internet provider, applied regional blocking technique by preventing access of its users (all other users could freely access the website) to the environmentalist website ecmo.ru, kasparov.ru reported. The blocking started after the website began to collect signatures for the dismissal of the local mayor, Vladimir Strelchenko.

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