Search: shutdowns and blocking in Europe

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Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
4 March 2022	Russia: regulator blocks BBC Russian, Deutsche Welle and other outlets	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Vladimir Putin	Sustained (4 March 2022)
4 March 2022	Russia criminalizes 'fake' reporting on the military, up to 15 years in prison	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Insult and defamation laws	Vladimir Putin	Sustained
18 May 2021	Belarus blocks Tut.by and arrests its editors as 'extremist'	Belarus (RSF 2026 rank: 165th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Alexander Lukashenko	Sustained
13 December 1981	Poland's martial law government shuts nearly all newspapers and interns journalists overnight	Poland (RSF 2026 rank: 27th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Wojciech Jaruzelski	Reversed (22 July 1983)
21 August 1968	Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is followed by the return of government press controls	Czechia (RSF 2026 rank: 11th of 180)	Prior restraint	Alexander Dubček	Reversed (1 November 1989)
May 1926	United Kingdom: Government requisitions newsprint and restricts rival newspapers during the 1926 General Strike	United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)	Funding and ownership pressure	Stanley Baldwin	Ongoing (10 May 1926)

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