The Russian communications service, Roskomnadzor, told the YouTube video hosting administration about the need to block the account of the opposition organization Open Russia. This is reported on the site of the organization.

According to the agency, in case of inactivity during the day, access to the service will be limited in the territory of the Russian Federation.

On the basis of the requirement of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation dated 11.12.2017 № 27-31-2017 / Ід6629-17 on taking measures to restrict access to information resources containing information disseminated in violation of the law, access to the information resource (pages) youtube. com is limited to telecommunications operators in the territory of.

It is also known that YouTube has already informed Open Russia of the receipt of this order.

The day before, it became known that the agency also gave the day to restrict access to the materials of the organization in the social network Twitter. At the moment, Open Russia accounts in Twitter and YouTube are available to users.