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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

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?

I was referring to the quotations of the Governor of Moscow and Dmitry Kravchuk of Stikhi.Ru. It appears that you failed to read those quotations, or more likely, that you deny seeing them in front of you.

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"

I missed a quotation of the Governor of Moscow in my first comment. It is included below.

"As far as content filtering of the Internet is concerned, State's politics intends to offer the public its services to protect them against harmful and unlawful content," stated Romanchenko as reported by Interfax.

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."
[...]
"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"

It's interesting that Mr. Kravchuk reacted with such official language against criticizing government officials, and that other Russian writers are telling us that the worst is about to happen.

We are concerned, as censorship against criticisms of government was practiced in Russia even before the Soviet Union. And Cubans continue to be imprisoned for criticizing their government.