As you know, we have experience dealing with attempts to block our information resources in general, or specific investigations in particular.
But in the Prikhodko-Deripaska-Rybka case, even we are saying: wow.
Nothing like this has happened before. Since Saturday, when I wrote the first post about the blocking orders, things have been getting stranger and stranger. At least seven different media outlets that wrote about our investigation have already received blocking notices.
Some cases are utterly absurd. For example, Maxim magazine received a notice. It has been ordered to immediately remove a collection of jokes from the internet.
Roskomnadzor (Russia’s federal media and communications regulator) said that if the information is not removed by February 14, they will block YouTube and Instagram.
And today at 9 a.m., our lawyer Slava Gimadi was already in the town of Ust-Labinsk, trying to obtain the documents on the basis of which these blocking notices were issued.
And from the chief judge (who is personally handling the case), he heard: You will get nothing. Navalny is not an interested party. He is not a participant in the proceedings.
The same thing was also said to the representative of the media outlet *Mediazona*.
It’s astonishing: we are going to block your resources, but we consider that not to affect your interests, so you will not be given any documents.
There is only one response to this: spread it further.
This is a war between our ability to spread the information and their attempts to block it, and we must win it — https://youtu.be/RQZr2NgKPiU.