The press office confirmed that Medvedev went to the real Rutracker.org

Dmitry Medvedev’s press secretary, Natalya Timakova, said that the Prime Minister had come to the real Rutracker.org, which had been permanently blocked in Russia, and not to his “double” - Rutacker.ru.

The incident occurred during a meeting of the government council on cinematography at VGIK. The Prime Minister took out his iPad and went to the largest torrent tracker, where he was offered to download the movie “Survivor”.

In the blogosphere, different opinions were expressed on how the prime minister managed to bypass the blocking. Someone suggested that he uses a VPN, and Roskomnadzor announced that the updated blacklist had not yet reached the local provider. Even expressed the opinion that Medvedev unknowingly typed in the browser address unlocked rutracker.ru,
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A spokesman for Dmitry Medvedev has denied these insinuations.

Timakova answered on Facebook questions of journalists, including the question about which site Dmitry Medvedev visited. “I am answering your question,” she wrote in a comment. “The address was Rutracker.org, the“ Survivor ”, he typed himself in the search - so the debate about the fact that on the first page is meaningless.”

At the meeting, Channel One CEO Konstantin Ernst complained that blocking sites with pirated content was ineffective. After that, Medvedev went to the site, made sure that it opens, and addressed Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Communications and Communications, who was present at the meeting: “Well, how does your Roskomnadzor block this?”

Internet access to VGIK is provided by the provider Yumos-Center LLC, which since the beginning of 2016 has been in the process of liquidation, and the technical staff of the company has been dismissed.