Roskomnadzor warned foreign IT companies against interfering in Russian elections

“Roskomnadzor and the Center for Monitoring the Management of Public Communication Networks of Russia ... sent letters to a number of foreign companies, including DNS and CDN service providers, demanding that they stop providing opportunities to bypass restrictions on access to the Smart Voting application and website. on the territory of the Russian Federation ", - TASS quotes the message of the department.

On September 6, the press service of Roskomnadzor announced the blocking of the Smart Voting resource due to its connection with an extremist organization.

It is noted that the reason for blocking the site was the requirement of the Prosecutor General's Office to restrict access to resources associated with the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) *.

* The Anti-Corruption Foundation is included in the register of NPOs performing the functions of a foreign agent, by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 09.10.2019;

the organization is recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited on the territory of Russia by the decision of the Moscow City Court of 06/09/2021.