Russian Duma adopts 'site blacklist' bill

For example, let's say a group is organizing and advertising a demonstration on a social network, and the odds are good that the protest will result in a police crackdown. Might this be excessively risky behavior? The Kremlin's answer would likely depend on the group, and whether the ruling party has a political interest to clamp down.

Now a simple blog post like "Lets go protest our government" could be considered as advocating risky behavior, and as such get blocked by Government.

- any information about drugs, methods of their use and places where they could be bought (i.e. if your travel guide would contain a sentence like something like "in Goa, marijuana is frequently sold in bars" - it can be blacklisted, same if you host a book that contains chemical formula of cocaine or Pulp Fiction movie that depicts drug usage).

- information about chemical substances used in manufacturing of illegal drugs (which include such substances as iodine, sulfuric acid, acetone, hydrochloric and acetic acids and many other basic chemical substances)

- information about methods of committing suicide

Unfortunately, most English translations lose the nuance of the original text, so here I give Russian wikipedia link with the summary of the changes: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%...

Unfortunately, the server of Russian legislative acts that contains the original text is down currently, but once it's back you'd be able to see it here: http://www.duma.gov.ru/systems/law/?number=89417-6&sort=...

The site can be banned without a court order, but can be unbanned only by court order. Given almost complete absence of independent judiciary in Russia and the widespread practice of expansive understanding of such laws by the security services, you can imagine how it's different from France.