Community Locked court MDK opened a new page “VKontakte” – RBC

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The Community MDK in the social network “VKontakte” blocked by a court decision opened a new page in the first hours was attended by over 2 million subscribers

Administrators blocked by a court decision MDK “VKontakte” community created a new Public social network We began to migrate subscribers to the old community. New Public located at https://vk.com/mudakoff.

The first entry in the form of a meme with the hero of the popular series “Game of Thrones” John Snow (on the story, the hero is resurrected) emerged in the community 3 38 am
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 As of 12:50 Moscow time the number of subscribers exceeded 2 million people.

A source close to the “VKontakte”, told RBC that the administration of the social network provides subscribers migrate from the old to the new community, adding that the decision to transfer of subscribers to the new community agreed with the CEO “VKontakte” Boris Dobrodeev.

Asked about the danger there is the social network with sanctions by Roskomnadzor, he replied at a loss, but noted that the claim of the court dealt with the specific content in an old pablike that is not on the new page. “7.5 million people people who have decided that they are interested in the whole of MDC, to do with it, and for this reason they decided to move to a new community”, – the source told RBC

A spokesman for VKontakte Eugene. Krasnikov declined to comment.

MDK group was locked in a social network “VKontakte” on Saturday, 21 May. When you try to visit the site it says: “This material is blocked by a court decision (Smolninskiy District Court of St. Petersburg) from 27.10.2015 №2-4220 / 15»

Smolninskiy District Court St. .Petersburg decided to deny access to the MDK group in October. The Court thus fulfilled the requirements of the prosecutor’s office, which is found on the page “informational materials that offend the feelings of believers, degrading various groups of people on the grounds of religion or nationality.”

In February this year, the city of St. Petersburg court rejected the appeal on the decision of the administration MDK Smolny district court.