The court decided to close the community on the site "Vkontakte" with 6.8 million subscribers

On August 10, the Prosecutor's Office of the Central District of St. Petersburg submitted to the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg an application for recognition of information posted in the virtual community of MDK on the VKontakte network, which is prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation. Today the court satisfied the requirements of the procurators.



MDK is one of the most popular VKontakte communities with almost 6.8 million subscribers. Public topics include entertainment content in the form of pictures and texts. Often, page owners resort to obscene vocabulary and touch on topics that are tabooed in society: the death of celebrities and terrorist acts . The page was accused of extremism and xenophobia .



In April of this year, a citizen addressed the prosecutor’s office with a complaint about the community content. An inspection was conducted on the fact of violation of the Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" and the Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information". It was found that the community "posted information materials that offend the feelings of believers, degrading different groups of people on the grounds of religious and national identity."



We are talking about the images of Jesus Christ, which, according to experts involved in the case of the Herzen University, were posted with insulting postscripts and signs. At the moment, the materials have been removed from the resource. But experts note that the community still has obscene language and pornography.

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On August 10, the prosecutor's office went to court and demanded to limit access to information. 2 weeks ago, on October 13, a regular hearing was held. Today, the court declared the community content illegal in Russia.

Hooray, we are closed!

- #MDK (18+) (@mudakoff) October 27, 2015

The site mdk.is continues to work, where interested parties are invited to subscribe to the newsletter of the resource. Community owners have responded to events in their own style .