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Yes, more censorship is likely on the way in the Russian Federation. The self-censorship by the site owners in question is in anticipation of government censorship, and that's probably why it has such an appearance of officiousness. Here's some information from another site.

http://www.brama.com/survey/messages/37988.html
Excerpt:
"The argument of the governor of Moscow has been supported by deputy head of federal agency for press and mass communications (Rospechat, former Ministry of Press) Andrei Romanchenko. During his Wednesday's speech at the conference entitled "Information security of Russia in global information age," he proposed to create a unified system of the so-called 'content filtering' in Russia."
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"One of the creators of the project 'Stikhi.Ru' Dmitry Kravchuk comments: 'Lately, we"ve been hearing about the importance of regulating the Internet from states' authorities and politicians alike. We simply wanted to forestall the situation in order to avoid running into problems in future. Clearly, we will be unable to scan and filter the entire content momentarily. That is why the decision has been reached to take action first before the government does.and form a model within our site for now.'"

"Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Anna Ossipova)"

"Pravda.Ru"

Yes, more censorship is likely on the way in the Russian Federation. The self-censorship by the site owners in question is in anticipation of government censorship, and that's probably why it has such an appearance of officiousness. Here's some information from another site

Oh good God, you're stretching this beyond rediculous. Then is FR's censorship of certain articles a sign of more censorship to come from the US government? Or do you apply double standards to your posts?

Thanks familyop,

As usual, your post is TIMELY, TRUTHFUL and IMPORTANT--TTS

"The argument of the governor of Moscow has been supported by deputy head of federal agency for press and mass communications (Rospechat, former Ministry of Press) Andrei Romanchenko. During his Wednesday's speech at the conference entitled "Information security of Russia in global information age," he proposed to create a unified system of the so-called 'content filtering' in Russia."

This is so sad - Russia is doomed to piral out of control and crash - such a shame and especially for my Russian friends. They had so much promise 10 years ago but like horses, they run back into the flames of the burning barn because its the only security they know.

At least Ukraine has managed to pull itself from this mess.