• Mashable, Monday, December 29, 2014 10:55 AM

Russia’s Internet watchdog is hard at work trying to quash social media mentions of a mass rally next month supporting opposition activist Alexei Navalny, a major critic of Vladimir Putin. A key figure in Russia’s anti-government protests in 2011-2012, he is currently under house arrest. The general prosecutor had requested that access be blocked “to Internet pages on Facebook which contain calls to unauthorized mass events,” including the page for next month's event for Navalny." He said Facebook fulfilled the request.

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