Russia blocks Google News service

Roskomnadzor blocked access to Google’s news aggregator in Russia. This, reports by TASS, citing the agency’s press service.

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As Roskomnadzor explained, access to the service was restricted on the basis of a demand from the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office due to \”ensuring access to materials containing false information about the course of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine\”.

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Google News is a news aggregator, meaning that it displays publications from other media on a given topic or by search terms.

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Earlier, on the second day after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Roskomnadzor demanded that media remove materials describing the events as a war, and on March 1 blocked the Dozhd channel’s websites and Echo of Moscow radio.

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On the night of March 4, Russian users encountered problems accessing Meduza, the BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Deutsche Welle.

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Since March 23, Roskomnadzor blocked for the second time Meduza and at least two more sites of independent Russian media—TJournal and Bumaga.

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