The moderator in question requested bloggers to publish only unique posts about protest actions. The major reason, as reported by a moderator of the resource, was that repeating posts containing information about the protests worsened people's attitudes. During the December 2008 demonstrations in Vladivostok, it was reported by the Kontury news website that FSB officers bbc issued a request that moderators of the ru_auto Internet community remove stories about the protests.
Blacklist entries as of June 2017 by agencies responsible for the entry In 2004 Russia pressured Lithuania, and in 2006 Sweden, into shutting down the Kavkaz Center website, a site that supports creation of a Sharia state in North Caucasus and hosts videos of terrorist attacks on Russian forces in the North Caucasus.