In Moscow, members of the National Bolshevik movement protesting against internet blocks have been detained.

In Moscow, on 12 February, National Bolsheviks Mikhail Chuyanov, Grigory Shakirov and Kirill Krivyak were detained 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 Tagansky police station, where their legal representative was not allowed in. Today, Chuyanov, Shakirov and Krivyak were led out of the police station by unknown individuals without their outerwear and taken away to an unknown location: the whereabouts of the National Bolsheviks is currently unknown.

On 12 February, unidentified Limonovites held an action called “Internet without oversight—Russia without Roskompozor,” during which they blocked the office of Roskomnadzor with a bicycle lock and put up an appropriate poster.

“For those on the Telegram front line, it became the main means of communication, used throughout all four years of the so-called Special Military Operation. Coordination of humanitarian aid to the frontlines was also carried out through this messenger—there is still no worthy alternative. State bodies spent over 230 billion rubles (about US$2.5 billion) on promoting and developing Telegram in Russia, but now all that work has been undone. Million-subscriber channels of Russian media outlets and news agencies have lost their audiences,” noted activists in the “Direct Action Z” channel.