On July 3, 2012, the Moscow prosecutor's office suspended the activities of the Internet sites Compromat. Ru and Moscow-post. Ru. Officially - until the end of the investigation into their activities. However, this period may drag on indefinitely and sites may not resume their work.
The official course of this event was given by the complaint of Sergei Dubik, adviser to President V. V. Putin. But long before this complaint, these resources were repeatedly caught in violation of the law on personal data and in the publication of inaccurate data. This is evidenced by the decisions of numerous courts.
Compromat. Ru, which calls itself a library of compromising evidence, specializes in collecting and publishing various information related to the activities of famous people. First of all - compromising and revealing materials against representatives of state services. Moscow-post. Ru is the official website of the eponymous socio-political newspaper "The Moscow Post", which is published in electronic form. The reason for the closure is the same.
Sergei Dubik filed a complaint against the exposing publication, in which he was accused of trading in positions, bribery, abuse of power and other violations of the law. This allegedly happened during the period when he held the post of head of the Presidential Administration for Civil Service and Personnel. The incriminating article was published in the newspaper Paritet-press, against whose founder the prosecutor's office opened an administrative case. Then this information was published on the Compromat. Ru website, and then on Moscow-post.ru. The latter attached to the article administrative protocols with Dubik's address, the number of his personal car and driver's license, personal data on Nikolai Dubik, Sergei's brother. Subsequently, both materials were deleted, but remained in the cache of the Google search engine.
The Russian registrar Ru-center immediately after receiving the order of the prosecutor's office blocked the activities of Compromat. Ru and Moscow-post. Ru. The domain name registrar Ru-center has the legal right to terminate the operation of third-level domains without a court decision. And this, in the opinion of human rights activists, is a direct sign of censorship and the strengthening of the control of the Runet by the state.
On the other hand, the target audience of closed sites can still visit scandalous resources. The secret is simple: the sites have moved from the RU domain zone to other zones and are now available at Compromat.net and Moscow-post.com addresses.
