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23 April 2014, 15:36Russia issued seven warnings over inciting national and religious enmity in 2014
St. Petersburg, April 23, Interfax - The Federal Service for Supervision in Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) blocked 85 websites with extremist content since the beginning of the year, Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov said at a media forum in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
"The prosecutor's office gave us information on 189 websites - 85 of them have been blocked and remaining 104 deleted extremism-related information. Not a single mass media outlet was among the websites that were blocked," Zharov said.
Roskomnadzor analyzed 257,700 media reports in 2013 and 70,000 in 2014, Zharov said. "This year we issued seven warnings over inciting national and religious enmity and fascist propaganda," he said.
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