In Moscow, National Bolshevik activists protesting against internet blockages have been detained

In Moscow on 12 February, police detained national-bolsheviks Mikhail Chuyanov, Grigory Shakirov and Kirill Krivyak over a protest against the blocking of Telegram. This was reported by the Telegram channel “National Human Rights Protection.”

The activists were taken to the Taganskoye police station, where their lawyer was not allowed access. Today, Chuyanov, Shakirov and Krivyak were taken out of the station by unidentified individuals without outerwear and driven off in an unknown direction: the national-bolsheviks' current whereabouts are unknown.

On 12 February, unidentified Limonov supporters held a protest action “Internet without surveillance—Russia without Roskompozor,” during which they locked the office of Roskomnadzor with a bicycle lock and put up a related placard.

“For those on the front line, Telegram has become the main means of communication, and has been used for all four years of the SVO. Coordination for sending humanitarian aid to the frontline has also taken place via this messenger—there is still no worthy alternative. Government bodies have spent more than 230 billion roubles (approx. US$2.5 billion) promoting and developing Telegram in Russia, but now all that effort has come to nothing. Russian media and news agency channels with millions of subscribers have lost their audiences,” said activists on the “Direct Action Z” channel.