Russian regulator restricts access to media sites associated with Prigozhin

 

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Russian regulator restricts access to media sites associated with Prigozhin 

From CNN's Mariya Knight 

The Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor has restricted access to media sites belonging to the Patriot media group, which is part of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s business empire.

Russian state news agency TASS reported that “access to the website of the Patriot media group, as well as to the websites of its members Federal News Agency, People's News, Economics Today and Politics Today, is limited on the territory of the Russian Federation.”

Roskomnadzor had limited access to the sites mediapatriot.ru, riafan.ru, rueconomics.ru, nation-news.ru, polit.info, it said.

“The grounds for blocking are not specified,” TASS said, adding that the networks of the Patriot media group and its Federal News Agency (RIA FAN) had also been blocked on the social media site VKontakte. 

Roskomnadzor previously told TASS that "a number of resources are being limited in order to prevent the spread of calls for participation in a military mutiny."

Prigozhin is on the board of trustees of the media group, which was established in October 2019.

The exact whereabouts of Prigozhin remain unknown one week after his short-lived mutiny, though Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed he is in Belarus.