KIEV: Ukraine on Tuesday blocked Russia’s most popular social media networks and an internet search engine in response to the Kremlin’s alleged backing of a three-year separatist war in the east.
The decision sparked an immediate outcry from Ukrainian internet users and freedom of speech advocates.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decision “another manifestation of unfriendly, short-sighted policy toward Russia”.
Some critics in Kiev further pointed to the irony of Poroshenko himself being an avid user of two of the Russian networks he had banned.
The pro-Western Ukrainian leader promised to quickly close his Russian accounts and defended the latest …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
