Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, blocked the news aggregator The True Story. The service was created by the ex-head of Yandex, Lev Gershenzon.

“Our beta is scheduled to enter the next stage - now in the Russian Federation we can only be read from under a VPN. I did not expect that we would be allowed to work freely for three whole days - apparently, August and the holiday season. Within the team, we made bets: how long they would not block. But nothing catastrophic happened, this is, one might say, a planned stage, ”said Gershenzon.

The goal of the aggregator, he said, is to ultimately provide a diversity of positions and opinions.

“It will be an aggregator with a human face. We want to properly rank words and opinions and learn how to display them so that the reader can choose what to believe. It will be easier at the start, but we will develop the project further,” Gershenzon said in an interview with Roskomsvoboda.