Russia extends Twitter slowdown period

In March, Roskomnadzor announced that it was slowing down the work of Twitter in Russia due to the fact that the social network does not delete

prohibited information.Later, the department threatened to block the company if it did not remove certain content. Today Roskomnadzor announced that it has extended measures to slow down Twitter in Russia, and will not block it for now.

Roskomnadzor said that Twitter traffic will beslowed down until May 15, 2021. Since these measures were introduced against the social network, it has removed about 1.9 thousand of the 3.1 thousand materials prohibited in Russia.

The department said that Twitter is deletinglinks to prohibited content in approximately 81 hours on average. Roskomnadzor demands that the company expedite the removal in accordance with Russian law and generally remove all prohibited content.

As explained in the department, Twitter made concessions, so Roskomnadzor decided not to move to a complete blocking of the social network.