Telincom [1], Khimki city Internet provider, applied regional blocking technique [2] by preventing access of its users (all other users could freely access the website) to the environmentalist website ecmo.ru [3], kasparov.ru reported [4]. The blocking started after the website began to collect signatures for the dismissal of the local mayor, Vladimir Strelchenko.
Russia: Khimki Local Provider Blocked Environmentalist Website
· Written by Alexey Sidorenko
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