Access toChildren-404group blocked forVKontakteusers on Russian territory following Roskomnadzor decision

Moscow, September 25, Interfax - The VKontaktesocial networking website has blocked the Russian account of an online community that was earlier banned by Russia's mass media watchdog Roskomnadzor for promoting homosexual relations among teenagers.

"Access to theChildren-404group has been blocked forVKontakteusers on the territory of the Russian Federation,"VKontaktespokesman Georgy Lobushkin wrote on his account on the social networking website in the early hours of Friday.

VKontaktewould have been blocked completely if it had refused to implement Roskomnadzor's instruction, Lobushkin said.

It was reported earlier that Roskomnadzor had imposed a ban on fiveVKontaktecommunities promoting homosexual relations among teenagers.

Roskomnadzor reported in November 2014, that an administrative offence protocol had been compiled against Yelena Klimova, administrator of theChildren-404. LGBT-Teenagersproject on theVKontaktesocial networking website, for promoting same-sex relations among teenagers.

TheChildren-404. LGBT-Teenagersproject was established in 2013.

Earlier, a St. Petersburg lawmaker, Vitaly Milonov, filed a lawsuit against Klimova, but the case was dropped due to the absence of any legal violations in the woman's activities.