MOSCOW, August 12 — RIA Novosti. Instagram * could be unblocked in Russia if Meta *, which owns it, stops engaging in extremist activities and apologizes to users, RIA Novosti Anton Gorelkin, deputy chairman of the State Duma Information Policy Commission, told RIA Novosti.
Instagram * can be unblocked when two basic conditions are met. First, Meta * must stop engaging in extremist activity and discrimination. Second, we expect her leadership to apologize to our country for legalizing the calls to kill Russian citizens.
Earlier Meta * platforms in the light of the events on Ukraine temporarily filmed in Facebook* and Instagram * ban on incitement to violence against the Russian military, «but not against the civilian population of the Russian Federation.» Henceforth Office of the Attorney General RF raised the recognition of Meta * as an extremist organization and SC The Russian Federation has launched a criminal case over public calls for extremism and aid to terrorism. In the lawsuit of the General Prosecutor’s Office Tverskoy Court Moscow On March 21, it blocked Instagram * and Facebook * (owned by Meta *) in Russia for extremist activity, the decision does not punish users for bypassing the blockade.
