Media analysts at Outset PR reported that the websites of several major international cryptocurrency publications have stopped opening for clients of Russian home internet providers.

Outset PR reports that the restrictions affected Cointelegraph, Benzinga, CoinGeek, Criptonoticias, CoinEdition, The Coin Republic, AMBCrypto, and Nada News. These sites do not load when connected to home networks and Wi-Fi, but remain accessible through other communication channels like mobile internet.

According to media analysts, the reason for the problems was targeted interference at the network level, rather than technical malfunctions of the publications' servers. The blocking uses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, which allows analyzing traffic and selectively restricting access.

At Outset PR, they say that access to resources is restricted unevenly: on some networks, the sites are completely inaccessible, while on others, they are partially accessible, which may indicate a distributed nature of the implementation of Roskomnadzor's orders. At the same time, the domains of the blocked publications have not yet been included in the public register of prohibited websites of the Russian regulatory authority.

In 2018, the publications Cointelegraph and Coinspot were blocked in Russia at the request of the tax service and the Volgograd court, respectively. The prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit after encountering an article about online casinos.

Recently, Anatoly Aksakov, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets of Russia, made it clear that cryptocurrencies are not capable of becoming a means of payment in the country and will forever remain only an investment tool under strict control.