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ForkLog 9 05.02.2021

Court ends case over blocking Bestchange mirror of cryptocurrency-exchange aggregator

The prosecutor's office dropped its bid to block Bestchange.net — the mirror of the online cryptocurrency-exchange aggregator Bestchange.ru. ForkLog was informed of this by the Digital Rights Center, the law firm that represented Bestchange in court.

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ForkLog 9 04.02.2021

Federation Council committee proposes blocking social networks for calls to illegal protests

The Federation Council's committee on information policy and interaction with the media said that Russian legislation should provide for blocking social networks for calls to participate in unlawful protest actions.

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ForkLog 7 02.02.2021

Roskomnadzor removes Binance from the register of banned websites

Roskomnadzor announced the removal of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange's site from the register of domain names containing information prohibited in the Russian Federation.

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ForkLog 16 29.12.2020

Abkhazia restricts Internet access amid cryptocurrency mining

On 28 December, the Abkhazian State Committee for Communications, Mass Media and Digital Development issued an order for the temporary blocking of sites used by cryptocurrency miners.

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ForkLog 11 22.12.2020

Bestchange bitcoin-exchange aggregator removed from Russia’s register of banned websites

On December 22, Roskomnadzor removed the Bestchange.ru online aggregator of cryptocurrency exchangers from the register of banned sites. ForkLog said this was communicated by the service's representatives.

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ForkLog 11 09.12.2020

Court orders blocking of Bestchange mirror over information about counterfeit Bank of Russia banknotes

On 1 December, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk ordered the blocking of the site Bestchange.net – the mirror of the online aggregator of cryptocurrency exchanges Bestchange.ru. The state prosecutor asserts that the resource disseminates information about the sale of counterfeit Bank of Russia banknotes.

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ForkLog 5 04.12.2020

Not Prohibited by Law: Why You Shouldn’t Abandon Crypto Services Over Blockades

In July 2020, the State Duma passed the Law on Digital Financial Assets (the DFA Law). The document brought cryptocurrencies into the legal framework, but Roskomnadzor continued to block sites with information about them.

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ForkLog 13 25.11.2020

Court orders the unblocking of Bestchange.ru, the bitcoin-exchange aggregator

On 25 November, the Arkhangelsk Regional Court overturned the first-instance court's decision to block the online aggregator of cryptocurrency exchanges Bestchange.ru. This was reported by RBC.

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ForkLog 8 09.10.2020

Tether blocks 100 USDT addresses on the Ethereum blockchain

The number of Tether addresses added to the Ethereum blacklist with USDT has reached 100, according to data from the Dune Analytics service. 84 addresses have been blocked this year, most after July.

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ForkLog 9 22.09.2020

Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office blocks another privacy-focused email service

The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has added the Mailbox domain and IP addresses of the privacy-focused mail service to the register of banned information, according to «RosKomSvoboda».

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ForkLog 7 21.09.2020

Russia seeks to ban concealing website names; experts call the bill ‘strange’

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation has tabled a bill banning the use on Russian territory of encryption protocols that hide the names of the websites and pages visited.

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ForkLog 17 16.09.2020

Sandvine halts supplies of internet-blocking equipment to Belarus

The American company Sandvine, whose products were used to filter internet traffic in Belarus, will no longer supply its technologies to the country. Bloomberg reports.

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