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	New Film by Vladimir Bortko Banned from General Release
	The famous Russian film director and the State Duma CPRF deputy Vladimir Bortko complains about private censorship in Russian film industry.
--04-02-2015--
	Charlie Hebdo Сaricatures Banned in Russian Mass Media
	Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications takes preventive measures for federal and regional Russian mass media.
--13-01-2015--
	Sale of Luis Royo’s Erotic Comic Book Forbidden in Russia
	Azbuka publishing house withdrew Prohibited Book by Luis Royo after its printing, the Chook & Geek comic book shop reported.
--09-01-2015--
	8 Concerts of Night Snipers Cancelled in Russia
	Diana Arbenina has reported about the concerts of her band Nochniye Snaiperi (Night Snipers) cancelled in eight cities.
--11-09-2014--
	Naked Noize MC Protests against Censorship
	Rapper Ivan Alekseev well-known as Noize MC appeared on stage naked at the Kubana music festival in the Krasnodar Territory.
--19-08-2014--
	Valeriya Gai Germanika Refused to Remove Swear Words from her Film
	Film director Valeriya Gai Germanika refused to clear off obscenities from her new film Yes and Yes.
--19-08-2014--
	Classical Russian Film Subjected to Censorship
	While the TV Center channel was broadcasting The Garage directed by Eldar Ryazanov the viewers were perplexed to hear beeping.
--15-04-2014--
	New Jerusalem Opera Cancelled In Petersburg
	The New Jerusalem opera about pedophile hunters will not premiere in Lendok Studio in the early April, as it was scheduled.
--04-04-2014--
	Petersburg Erotic Museum Sealed Up by Police
	Following the Power Museum the Petersburg police have closed and sealed up another museum founded by the former Arkhangelsk mayor Alexander Donskoy - the G Point Erotic Museum.
--04-09-2013--
	Andrei Biljo Drawings Checked Up for Extremism
	Law enforcement agencies in Yaroslavl have decided to check the program of the Civil Platform party for extremism.
--18-06-2013--
	Art Object Removed from Tretyakov Gallery Due to Faints
	Dreamer - a figure of a sleeping worker lying on floor - by the artist Arseny Zhilyaev has been removed from the exposition of Modernism Department of the State Tretyakov Gallery on Wednesday, April 3.
--08-04-2013--
	Drawings Dedicated to Pussy Riot Removed from Feministic Exhibition
	The exhibition “International Women's Day. Feminism: from Avant-Garde to Now” has been opened in the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman exhibition complex in Moscow.
--11-03-2013--
	21 Websites Striked Off Russian Internet Blacklist
	Russia’s telecoms watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has struck 21 entries off its “blacklist” in three days, the agency reported on Wednesday.
--16-11-2012--
	Russian Prosecutors to Probe Scorsese’s Film for Extremism
	Martin Scorsese’s 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ has fallen under the suspicion of extremism and can be banned in Russia.
--06-11-2012--
	No More Itchy and Scratchy in Simpsons for Russian TV
	They’ve been killing each other for decades, but Russian censorship managed to hit them at one stroke - famous cat and mouse will be cut from the Simpsons for Russian broadcast.
--31-08-2012--
	Russian Wikipedia Strikes Against Internet Censorship
	Russian Wikipedia, the segment of the world’s largest free on-line encyclopedia, temporarily suspended its work on Tuesday in protest against a bill proposing creation of a blacklist of all websites containing banned content.
--10-07-2012--
	Mickey Mouse Collage Twice Claimed Extremist
	Zhukovsky District Court of the Kaluga Region has declared Alexander Savko's collage “Sermon on the Mount” to be an extremist material.
--22-12-2011--
	Auteur Cinema Accused of Sexual Content
	Novosibirsk officials are going to close a local cinema specializing on cinema classics and auteur films.
--10-09-2011--