Internet freedom violations in Russia 2020, by type

Published by Statista Research Department, May 5, 2022
In 2020, Russian state authorities imposed a ban on information on the internet or blocked websites nearly 272.5 thousand times. The second most common intervention was to impose administrative pressure on the source that was to be restricted.

Number of state-led interventions in internet freedom in Russia in 2020, by type

CharacteristicNumber of interventions
Censorship (information ban, site blockings) 272,487
Administrative pressure 2,341
Criminal proceedings 289
Abuse (threats) 103
Civil proceedings 91
Proposals to regulate the internet 45
Cyber attacks 43
Imprisonment 31
Pressure on IT business and programmers 16
State shutdown of the internet 0
Murder 0
Other 108
Showing entries 1 to 12 (12 entries in total)
Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Number of interventions272,487272,4872,3412,341289289103103919145454343313116160000108108Censorship (information ban, site blockings)Administrative pressureCriminal proceedingsAbuse (threats)Civil proceedingsProposals to regulate the internetCyber attacksImprisonmentPressure on IT business and programmersState shutdown of the internetMurderOther
020,00040,00060,00080,000100,000120,000140,000160,000180,000200,000220,000240,000260,000280,000300,000

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March 2021

Region

Russia

Survey time period

2020

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