Roskomnadzor Blocks Over 170,000 Pages for Prohibited Content

In the first quarter of 2024, Roskomnadzor, alongside other departments, has blocked or deleted nearly 172,000 internet pages containing content deemed illegal under Russian law, as reported on their official Telegram channel.

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In the first quarter of 2024, Roskomnadzor, alongside other departments, has blocked or deleted nearly 172,000 internet pages containing content deemed illegal under Russian law, as reported on their official Telegram channel.

In a significant crackdown on prohibited online content, Roskomnadzor announced the blocking or deletion of almost 172,000 web materials, including entire sites and individual pages, during the first quarter of 2024. This action reflects the agency’s ongoing efforts to enforce internet regulations in compliance with Russian law.

According to details released on Roskomnadzor’s official Telegram channel, a vast majority of these pages—157,800—were blocked following court decisions, directives from authorized bodies, and the requirements set forth by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. An additional 14,100 pages were removed through collaborative efforts with social network administrations.

Furthermore, since the onset of March 2024, Roskomnadzor has intensified its regulatory activities by blocking 82 websites that advertised VPN services. This move comes in response to new laws prohibiting the promotion of such services in Russia. The agency has also targeted hosting providers that have failed to meet the legislative requirements concerning “landing,” leading to further site blocks.

Roskomnadzor’s aggressive measures are part of a broader strategy to leverage advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, to detect and eliminate illegal content swiftly. This initiative underscores the agency’s commitment to maintaining a controlled and lawful internet environment within the country.

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Dan Taylor is the founder and editor of International Search Insights (ISI), the publication behind ReadIsi, and a Partner and Head of Innovation (Search & AI) at SALT.agency. He has worked in search for more than a decade, in-house and agency-side, and is regarded as one of the West’s leading voices on search engines beyond Google, including Yandex, Baidu, Naver and Cốc Cốc. On ReadIsi, Dan covers the engines and AI answer platforms that English-language coverage tends to miss: Baidu and ERNIE, Yandex and Alice AI, Naver, Cốc Cốc, Shenma, Sogou, WeChat and Weibo search, plus DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. He also keeps dated records of documented changes, such as the Yandex, Baidu and Naver algorithm update histories and the DeepSeek, ERNIE and Qwen model update histories. His approach is to take learnings from global search engines and apply logic with a high evidence threshold. A claim needs a source, patterns seen in one market are treated as a hypothesis until they are checked in another, and where the evidence is thin he says so. For brands, that means advice built on what can be shown, with measurement that separates being cited from being chosen. Dan is credited with coining the term “edge SEO” and won the inaugural TechSEO Boost research competition in 2018 for his work on CDN and edge changes for SEO. In 2026 he was credited with coining “Infinite Tail” to describe how keyword research is changing with AI search. He is the author of AI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector, writes for Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land and Travel Marketing Guy, and has advised technology, SaaS, travel and enterprise ecommerce brands, including Cloudflare, GitLab and Airbnb. He has given multiple talks and panels at the International Search Summit in Barcelona, and has also spoken at Optimization Moscow, brightonSEO, Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Asia in Bangkok, Athens SEO and the Asia SEO Virtual Summit 2026, where his talk looked at how Baidu, Naver, DeepSeek, Tencent, Cốc Cốc and Yandex built their own AI answers.
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