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Tajikistan to Block About 130 Websites Including the VKontakte Website and Websites of a Number of Russian Mass Media

Internet & IT, 26.12.2012 10:11:33, read 1938, comments 6       Russian version

The Communications Service under the Government of Tajikistan has ordered Internet service providers to block a number of websites among which there are popular social networking websites and musical and video resources.

The websites in question are Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter and topvideo.tj. By now over 30 websites, including vesti.ru, gazeta.ru, ria.ru and centrasia.ru, have been blocked in Tadzhikistan.

In the end of November 2012 the Tajikistan authorities blocked the access to Facebook, allegedly because of “the defamation of the government and its executives”. After the appeals of international organizations including those of the OSCE and the European Union, the access to Facebook has been unblocked.

The next presidential elections in Tajikistan will take place in November 2013. In all probability the escalation of censorship is connected exactly with this event.

Translation: Natasha Anukhina

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