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PC Gamer
Joshua Wolens

Steam has taken down 'over 260 materials containing illegal content' from its Russian store, brags the country's media censorship agency

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin examines his new official website in Moscow on October 31, 2008.

Russian media agency Interfax (via The Moscow Times) reports that Steam has complied with a request from Roskomnadzor—Russia's media regulator—to remove "all materials forbidden in the Russian Federation."

Steam has, says The Moscow Times, around 9.5 million users in Russia (and all of them have gotten angry at me in Counter-Strike). No doubt the Russian state's rapidly growing interest in clamping down on western tech and developing its own national "digital sovereignty" has led it to pay close attention to the US-headquartered service.

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