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Russia’s media regulator has blocked a website backed by former oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the latest media site to be blacklisted by the agency.

Roskomnadzor’s decision to add MBK Media to its blacklist, less than four weeks before Russia’s presidential election, follows a request from the Prosecutor-General’s Office.

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