NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia -- Russia's media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has blocked a popular news website in Siberia's largest city, Novosibirsk, for using the word "war" in reports covering Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Taiga.Info website's representatives told RFE/RL on March 1 that the site was blocked almost immediately after editors received a warning letter from Roskomnadzor demanding the reports in question be removed from the site, which the editors did.
A similar letter was sent to the TV2 television channel in another Siberian city, Tomsk, on March 1. That channel also removed the reports in question.
A day earlier, Roskomnadzor blocked Current Time and RFE/RL's Crimea.Realities project forrefusing to delete their reports about the war in Ukraine.
Roskomnadzor had warned media outlets across the country earlier that Russia's invasion of Ukraine cannot be called a war or an invasion and should instead be referred to as a "special military operation in Ukraine."
