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07\/25\/2025July 25, 2025Russian parliament approves bill punishing ‘extremist’ online searches<\/p>\n

The upper house of the Russian parliament approved a bill that penalizes online searches for information officially labeled “extremist.”<\/a><\/p>\n

It is the latest in a series of moves by authorities to tighten control of the internet.<\/p>\n

The legislation makes what it describes as “deliberately searching for and accessing extremist materials” online punishable by a fine of up to the equivalent of $64 (\u20ac54).<\/p>\n

The bill, which was endorsed by the lower house earlier this week, is now set to be signed into law by President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

In Russia, the official definition of extremist activity is extremely broad and includes opposition groups such as the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was created by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, as well as the “international LGBT movement.”<\/p>\n

It is unclear how the authorities will track down violators. According to officials and lawmakers, only those who methodically seek outlawed content will be targeted, and ordinary internet users won’t be affected.<\/p>\n

However, no explanation was offered as to how authorities would differentiate between them. Many Russians use VPN services to access banned content. However, authorities have sought to tighten restrictions and close loopholes.<\/p>\n

Russian authorities have ramped up their multipronged crackdown on dissent after sending troops into Ukraine in February 2022<\/a>, with online censorship and prosecutions for social media posts and comments having\u00a0soared since then.<\/p>\n

Multiple independent news outlets and rights groups have been shut down, labeled as “foreign agents,” or outlawed as “undesirable.” Additionally, hundreds of activists and Kremlin critics have faced criminal charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"07\/25\/2025July 25, 2025Russian parliament approves bill punishing ‘extremist’ online searches The upper house of the Russian parliament approved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-290838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114914419398435569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}