In wake of sex scandal: Russian media watchdog blocks opposition website


 

The Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies, Communications and Mass Mediareferring (Roskomnadzor) has started blocking online resources of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in particular, his website navalny.com.

The agency is acting upon the claim by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska who is pushing for restricting public access to personal information.

As previously reported, сall girl Anastasiya Vashukevich, a native of the Belarusian town of Babruysk, unintentionally revealed juicy details of a sex life of Russian oligarchs and top officials by posting compromising photos on Instagram. She even wrote the book A Story Of Seducing A Billionaire, Or A Clone For An Oligarch.

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The case attracted attention of the Anti-Corruption Foundation led by Alexei Navalny which set up its own investigation and published the results in a new video on February, 8.

Russian authorities blacklisted the recent investigation by the Foundation. The materials are to be removed from its website, Youtube and Instagram. The decision was made by Roskomnadzor which referred to the ruling of Ust-Labinsk district court. Earlier, Russian tycoon Deripaska sued Anastasiya Vashukevich aka Nastya Rybka over her publication of his private photos.

Billionare Oleg Deripaska, director of aluminium producer Rusal, and Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government Sergei Prikhodko (previously an aide to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin) are involved in the corruption scandal. The video gives evidence of the duo’s taking a boat ride with the so-called good-time girls’ to the coast of Norway in August 2016.

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