Ministry of Digital to Weekly Revise Accessible Websites during Net Restrictions
The Ministry of Digital Development has published a list of internet services that will remain accessible during mobile internet restrictions, as reported by Kommersant on September 5. The list, which is planned to include 57 service names in total, will be updated weekly.
According to the recommended list by the Ministry, the whitelist will include popular Russian internet resources such as Gosuslugi, social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, messenger Max, Mail.ru, Yandex services, marketplaces Ozon and Wildberries, Avito, Zen, Rutube, and various other services.
The website of the Miro payment system, government and presidential administration resources, the platform for remote electronic voting, and websites of mobile operators Beeline, Megafon, MTS, Rostelecom, and T2 will also continue to operate.
The minister explained the whitelist update via TASS, but no specific date for future updates was provided in the article. According to Vedomosti, sources familiar with the progress of the list's discussion suggest that the whitelist may include resources of food retail networks, websites of media outlets like Komsomolskaya Pravda, RIA Novosti, Lenta.ru, RBC, and Pikabu, as well as the platform HH.ru and others in the future.
The criteria for a service to be included in the whitelist are based on its popularity and rating among Russian internet resources. The search results do not provide information about any additional internet resources added to the Ministry of Digital Development's negotiation table for a possible future version of the whitelist beyond the already mentioned 57 resources.
