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Internet censorship and content blocking by Russian regulators

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11.05.2025

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Apple and SoundCloud have blocked songs by Noize MC and Monetochka for listeners in Russia. This was reported by the Roskomsvoboda project.

According to the project, Apple has blocked eight tracks, including “Strana Dozhdei” (“Land of Rains”), “Ne vse doma” (“Not All There”), “Kooperativ ‘Lebedinoye Ozero’” (“Swan Lake Cooperative”), and “Kriokamery” (“Cryochambers”). At the end of March, these songs appeared in the register of banned websites. Roskomsvoboda notes that the eight tracks blocked by Apple include different versions of the same songs.

Roskomnadzor explained that tracks from Noize MC’s new album “Ne vse doma” (“Not All There”), released this year and featuring a track of the same name, are being blocked, including on “Yandex.Music,” for “dissemination of false socially significant information.”

The song “Childfree,” performed by Noize MC and Monetochka, was also blocked. It has disappeared from Apple Music, and the album containing it is not available on SoundCloud. However, the instrumental version of the track, which contains no lyrics, has not been blocked by Apple. There has been no official announcement by Russian authorities regarding a ban on the song “Childfree.”

At the same time, SoundCloud has blocked only some of the tracks from Noize MC’s “Ne vse doma” album, as well as “Childfree,” which was uploaded to the platform separately, outside of the album release.

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Since the beginning of the war, Russian regulators have been blocking online content more frequently. By June 2023, for reasons of “military censorship,” at least 200,000 resources had been blocked; over the year, Roskomnadzor blocked more than 670 materials. Access to websites, specific materials, social media pages and other information is restricted for various reasons—in particular, in Russia content “promoting” LGBTQ issues, related to “undesirable” organisations or included in the register of “extremist materials” is regularly blocked.

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