March 29, 2024

Roskomnadzor again blocked several cryptocurrency media

Roskomnadzor once again blocked several cryptocurrency media, including Cointelegraph and Coinspot.

Blocking information (and other) sites aboutblockchain and cryptocurrencies in Russia — It’s already a fairly common occurrence. In most cases, blockings are recognized as illegal and are canceled by the decision of higher courts. But to do this, resource owners have to turn to the help of lawyers and get involved in lengthy proceedings. At the same time, foreign sites, as a rule, do not go to Russian courts.

Today the Roskomnadzor register was unexpectedlySeveral sites about cryptocurrencies have been included. Their exact number is unknown at the time of publication. However, two popular news sites were blocked — Cointelegraph and Russian-language Coinspot.

Interestingly, the publication Cointelegraph came underthe ban was not by a court decision, but at the request of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) based on order 2-6-20/2017-12-22-310-AI dated 12/25/2017 — that is, almost two years later.

Coinspot was blocked by a more recentdecision of the Central District Court of Volgograd (case 2a-4546/2019 dated August 22, 2019) on the claim of the prosecutor's office of the Danilovsky district of the Volgograd region. According to the document, the site should be blocked only partially, that is, only one article telling about ways to open an online casino on the blockchain. But most providers don’t block a page, but the entire site.

In both cases, the basis for blockingwas served by Article 15.1 149-FZ of July 27, 2006 “On information, information technologies and information protection.” Based on this law, sites with information whose distribution is prohibited in the Russian Federation are usually blocked.

Probably a list of blocked cryptocurrenciessites in the near future replenished. We will tell about measures that will be taken by the owners of the resources to unlock them, as information becomes available.

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