Prosecutors suggest limiting access to extremist sites

MOSCOW. April 28. KAZINFORM The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has suggested limiting access to internet sites of an extremist or terrorist nature, according to a report published on law and order in Russia in 2011.

The report talks about the need to "develop at the federal level effective mechanisms for limiting access to information resources of extremist and terrorist nature on the internet."

"One of the destabilizing factors is planting terrorist and extremist ideology using the internet so we regularly monitor it to identify such sites. But since some of them in most cases are located outside Russia, it is impossible to resolve the issue of closing them," the report said, RIA Novosti reports.

According to some experts, including the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in 1998, there were only about 15 sites that promoted terrorism and extremism, and today there are thousands of them, 150 of them are Russian speaking. The number of registered crimes related to spreading extremist materials on the internet is growing but it is incomparable with the actual prevalence of such information on the net.

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