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{{Display censorship incident
|ongoing=no
|year=2013
|region=Russia and Central Asia
|subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion
|medium=Internet
|date_of_action=May 24, 2013
|location=Russia
|description_of_content=Vkontakte, the social media website.
|description_of_incident=Vkontakte, the second most popular website in Russia was shut down for several hours. Russian authorities claimed that it was an accident, but it still prompted massive public backlash. It "has reinvigorated the debate on internet censorship and differing world views on what should be made available to the public on the web."
|description_of_result=The block was lifted relatively shortly thereafter.
|image=http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/8e/a3/8ea39c0c04c39da2fe96ebd442ce7395.jpg
|source=http://www.dailydot.com/news/russia-blacklist-law-vk-blocked/
}}