Russian regulator agrees to unblock Alexei Navalny's website

The register of prohibited materials excludes the pages of the Alexei Navalny's website about vacations of a top-ranking official on an oligarch's yacht, the publication of which was considered by the Kuban court as a reason for blocking the website.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on February 9, the Ust-Labinsk District Court pronounced the decision to block the anti-corruption investigation on the Alexei Navalny's website, which reported about the vacations of an influential Russian official on a yacht with an oligarch and prostitutes. On the same day, "Roskomnadzor" (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) included the Alexei Navalny's website in the register of prohibited information, although the court's decision did not enter into force. Lawyers from the Anti-Corruption Foundation challenged the decision of the Ust-Labinsk District Court.

Today, the "Roskomnadzor" has removed from the Unified Register of Prohibited Information the pages of the Alexei Navalny's website, reports a press officer of the supervisory authority.

The official from the "Roskomnadzor" has explained the removal of the Alexei Navalny's website from the register of prohibited materials by the decision of the Anti-Corruption Foundation to remove the investigation from the website, the "Dozhd" (Rain) TV Channel reports on its website.

After the pages with the investigation had been removed from the website, Alexei Navalny requested the "Roskomnadzor" to unblock the website. He has explained that the investigation "was watched by 6 million people, but now no one clicks the link," the BFM reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.