Anonymizers and Tor are still accessible in Belarus

Whereas those websites access to which was restricted by Ministry of Information stopped loading.

On February 26 the regulation about the procedure for restricting access to sites was enacted in Belarus. "Regulations on the access to information resources (their components) located in the World Wide Web" were approved by the Analytical Center at the Presidential Administration and the Ministry of Communications in consultation with the Ministry of Information.

Website access restrictions are provided in the new law on mass media passed in late 2014.

However, the law had no description of the blocking procedure. The new procedure specified how the access to sites will be denied, Euroradio informs.

The decree also stipulates that access may be limited to the proxy servers and Tor, which allow to avoid the ban. Many were quick to announce that they have been restricted access to. But on the morning of February 26, Tor-browser, proxy servers and VPN were still allowed to visit the sites to which access is restricted in the usual way by the decision of the Belarusian Ministry of Information. But experts say that if need be, Tor and proxies can be easily blocked.

For example, the controversial yahooeu.by and yah.by, which were still available in Belarus on February 25, today could only be accessed through the Tor-browser, proxy servers and VPN.