Would note (spent 14 years in China and saw during that time Facebook, YouTube, Google, WhatsApp, Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, NYTs, BBC, Bloomberg etc all blocked during that time), that governments really don’t have to “Ban” usage of a website. They block traffic to it using DNS location data or other methods. A ban sounds like a legislative or executive or judicial legal action. Blocking in the PRC was done with no associated law or legal mechanism…government censors just decided to block them and then they did.

Russia has been doing this / similar to YouTube for months. It’s is reportedly near impossible to use there. A “shadow” ban if you will (but a real one, not an imagined one).

Is there a way to check if an entire website has been included in the registry, rather than just individual subpages? When I check "youtube.com" in the registry, I already get several hundreds of records (the first one is from 2010), without any information on what exactly is being blocked.

Didn't think about that ( what's your opinion?

To be honest, I have no idea. I hope I'm missing something.

@Herrpickle
It seems that the actual address of the registry of blocked websites is: https://blocklist.rkn.gov.ru/
YouTube isn't listed there yet, but Facebook and Twitter are.

Are you going to add this websie to description?

Done

Whoa! Look at this market, there is some arbitrage here: https://manifold.markets/AVS/will-youtube-be-blocked-in-russia-b-aac942c56928