Yahoo's sports section is on the list of banned sites.

The sports section of the Yahoo portal got into the register of prohibited sites after the decision to block it was made by the Federal Tax Service of Russia. The reason for the blocking was the presence of a sports tote on the service. Roskomnadzor added sports.yahoo.com to the list of prohibited December 15.

A spokesman for Roskomnadzor, Vadim Ampelyonsky, explained that since November the FTS has been added to the list of organizations that have the right to add sites to the blacklist out of court. The service does not hesitate to use this right and has already added about 400 different sites to the registry.
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The service was not helped by the fact that the tote called Daily Fantasy is available only to residents of the United States. In addition, due to the inclusion of several ip-addresses in the “black list”, according to complaints of individual users, access to other services from Yahoo, for example, Flickr, was also disrupted.

Problems with the subdomains of the portal, according to the explanations of the press secretary of Roskomnadzor, arise from the use of HTTPS technology, which encrypts traffic and does not allow to prohibit access to individual pages of the site.

Yahoo search engine is located on a separate server with its ip-address. All other services may be unavailable as providers are implementing regulations of the supervisory service.

The Yahoo portal has already been distributed this year, when the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, watching a video on a video hosting service, discovered there videos about the “Islamic State” (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). Then Yahoo deleted the controversial video some time after the portal was added to the list, and the block was removed.

Pre-trial blocking of resources and the black list of sites became possible thanks to the memorable amendment 187-3 to the law “On information, information technologies and information protection”, better known as the “ law against the Internet ”. Her discussion triggered a wave of indignation from the Internet public, but under the auspices of the fight against Internet piracy, terrorism, pedophilia and other equivalent atrocities, it was adopted and put into effect in 2013.