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A Moscow city court on Nov. 10 upheld an earlier decision to block the LinkedIn social networking website. After the failure of the appeal, the ban on the website is expected to come into force within a few days.

On Aug. 4, Moscow’s Tagansky Court approved a request from Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor to add LinkedIn to a list of Internet sites that violated Russia’s personal data laws.

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