Affiliated media: What Was That?, News podcast of BBC Russian Service

Incident date: April 13, 2022

Attack type:

• request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

At the request of Roskomnadzor, the Yandex Music streaming service has removed the «What Was That?» news podcasts produced by the BBC Russian Service. Since February 24, the daily podcast has been dedicated to «chronicles the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the stories of eyewitnesses and BBC correspondents». The BBC Russian Service website has been blocked in Russia since March 4. Roskomnadzor later blocked the main English-language website of BBC as well.