Forcing providers to prosecutors to block YouTube and VKontakte without a court is scheduled to be committed throughout Russia

On September 19, about Omsk and the twenty-first about Volgograd, we read in Habrahabr that prosecutors sent providers grim letters threatening criminal responsibility for providing access to extremist materials (even those that the court had not yet recognized as extremist and therefore were not included in the list of the Ministry of Justice) - providers eventually succumb to pressure and disconnect their clients from YouTube and VKontakte.

I consider it necessary to draw the attention of a wide range of Habrakhabr’s readers to the fact that this measure is by no means limited to only the two cities mentioned above.

On September 19, Interfax distributed a message from the press service of the Tomsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office, stating that it’s Viktor Grin (Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation) sent instructions to regional prosecutors concerning blocking access to sites containing the video “Muslims Innocence”. (In this message, however, there is no clarification “sent to all regional prosecutor's offices,” but I do not see any particular reason to hope that this official left some of the regional prosecutor’s offices without instructions.)
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Therefore expect, therefore, similar letters from the prosecutor's office in your city, on the table of your provider.

Personally, I first mentioned this news of “Interfax” in a blog recording of Bulatov in LiveJournal; I later saw that Interfax also referred to ve1m in its commentary on the Omsk blocking, but this is one of the last comments there, more than ten hours away from the main blog post, so I’m not surprised that the news eluded some attention of Habrahabr’s readers was not mentioned, for example, in the discussion of a later (yesterday's) Volgograd event.

However, so that my current blog post does not consist only of a wider republishment of the essence of that comment, I intend to additionally mention that not only the prosecutor's office, but also Roskomnadzor, also calls providers to block access to the ill-fated video, RIA Novosti reports . There, in consolation, it is reported that Nikolai Nikiforov (the head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media), when asked about the possibility of blocking YouTube in Russia, said “This will not happen ” - however, so far his statement contradicts the observed facts, if the minister meant “there will be no blocking "And not, say," will not be YouTube. "