INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia's media regulator Roskomnadzor "restricted access" to social media network Twitter after blocking Facebook in the country, Russian
news agencies reported Friday.According to Interfax and RIA Novosti news agencies, access to Twitter was restricted on the basis of a
request of the Prosecutor General from Feb
themselves cut off from reliable information..
government crackdown on independent media and activists since the start of the Russian invasion.The country's key remaining liberal media
outlets have been shut down in recent days and a new law introducing harsh jail terms for publishing "fake news" about the war in Ukraine
has forced others to abstain from covering that topic.Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill introducing jail terms of up
to 15 years for publishing "fake news" about the Russian army.Russia's lower house said in a statement that if fake news stories "led to
for sanctions against Russia.
