Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, received more than 118,000 reports of illegal online content this year, the agency said earlier this month.
In the first six months of 2017, the watchdog received roughly 39,000 complaints related to drugs and drug use and a similar number of notifications flagging illegal games online. Other categories included child pornography, with roughly 21,000 complaints and the “promotion of suicide,” with 19,000 complaints.
In total, roughly 52,000 links were blocked by the agency.
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