Russia has blocked access to OKX—the world’s third-largest crypto exchange by volume—at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office on Tuesday.
A search for the exchange’s domain under records from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s internet censorship agency, shows the site was blocked under article 15.3 of Russia’s law on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection.
The article protects against the spread of fake information, threats to financial organizations, calls for extremist activity, among other things. However, no specific reason has been given for the website ban at this time. OKX did not immediately respond to Decrypt's request for comment.
The local NGO Roskomsvoboda has also listed Okx.com among its registry of blocked addresses. The organization, dedicated to monitoring online censorship, uses a name similar to Russia’s censorship agency, but replaces the latter half with “svoboda” (which means “freedom” in Russian) as opposed to "nadzor" (which translates...
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