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Russia bans Shutterstock domain because of photo showing national flag planted in poop.

Russia’s federal censor has added one of the domains operated by the American stock photography provider “Shutterstock” to its registry of banned online resources. According to MBK Media, Roskomnadzor added image.shutterstock.com to its blacklist on the basis of a decision by the Attorney General’s Office on November 13.

The website Roskomsvoboda, which monitors Internet freedom in Russia, says officials started blocking the domain on November 28. Shutterstock users and Roskomsvoboda have also shared hyperlinks to the image that caused the domain’s ban: a photograph of a miniature Russian flag planted in a moldy pile of feces. At the time of this writing, the image is still accessible at Shutterstock.

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Shutterstock fully accessible in Russia after 'objectionable image' row.

U.S. stock photography and footage provider Shutterstock on Friday said it had resolved issues that led to one of its domains being blocked for what Russian authorities said an "objectionable image".

Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor this week said that it had blocked a Shutterstock domain over content it said constituted an insult to state symbols.

Shutterstock said it regretted "that this issue was not addressed in a timely manner" and that the site is now fully accessible in the country.

Source Reuters