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Dagestan blocks access to 40 extremist websites
 [TASS] Dagestan has blocked access to 40 Internet resources, the republic’s Press and Information Minister, Aznaur Adzhiyev, said at a meeting of the Anti-Terrorist Commission on Friday. He said, "In July-December 2015 about 100 resources having extremist features were exposed. At the end of January access to more than 40 resources was blocked." The Press and Information Ministry said it had created a group of four qualified specialists monitoring the Internet on the permanent basis. Adzhiyev said, "Print and electronic media, Dagestan's segments of the social networks and blogs are being scrutinized for the presence of anti-constitutional, nationalist and extremist publications. Monitoring lists are dispatched to the authorities concerned." "A group of journalists, experts and bloggers specializing on the problems of extremism and terrorism has been created. It incorporates members of the anti-terrorist committee in Dagestan, the executive authorities, law enforcement agencies, the Dagestani Research Center under the Russian Academy of Sciences and local universities. In the whole of 2015 about 1,300 anti-terrorist materials have been placed in the mass media," Adzhiyev said, adding that clerics are actively involved in the effort to resist extremism. Posted by: ryuge 2016-01-31 |
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