This is happening because Putin is a dictator, and so he hates the free flow of information, or anything else associated with democracy. And for those who say

This is happening because Putin is a dictator, and so he hates the free flow of information, or anything else associated with democracy. And for those who say in the US we have the NSA spying on citizens, I say yes, and that's bad, but the flow of information is still a hundred times more free.