A RUSSIAN court has banned access on the internet to the videos of performances by the jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot, ruling the films to be extremist.
A Moscow court declared the videos, including the infamous Punk Prayer in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, to be "extremist" and ordered internet providers to "restrict access" to the films, Russian news agencies reported.
The judge also listed as subject to restriction the official Pussy Riot web page and the band's popular Livejournal blog, the location of most of its manifestos and photos from other actions.
The ruling appears to impose a wholesale ban on accessing the videos inside Russia but it remains to be seen how this will be implemented.
Google representative Alla Zabrovskaya told AFP in an emailed comment the internet giant's video-sharing subsidiary YouTube needs to receive the written court decision listing the specific internet links before making its own decision on the matter.
The judge's decision pertains to a total of four videos from four different performances published on five different websites, court spokeswoman Yevgenia Pazukhina told Interfax.
The ruling supported the position of Moscow's prosecutors who told the court that linguistic experts found the clips offensive.
Materials officially branded "extremist" are put on a blacklist kept by the Russian justice ministry. Their dissemination can be considered a criminal offence.
Currently the list has about 1500 items, mostly related to banned religious and ultra-nationalist groups or those deemed to have a fascist ideology.
Two Pussy Riot band members are currently serving two-year prison sentences after their cathedral performance was ruled an act of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
The video of the February Punk Prayer has gone viral and been viewed on YouTube several million times. Its lyrics appeal to the Virgin Mary to "get rid of (President Vladimir) Putin".
Pussy Riot also sang a song Putin Got Scared on Red Square, and staged an illicit concert on the roof of a Moscow prison for those detained at a protest rally last December.
The band's Yekaterina Samutsevich, who has been convicted for the church stunt but freed with a suspended sentence, called Thursday's ruling a "direct recognition of artistic censorship" in Russia.
The case of Pussy Riot has polarised Russian society while their prosecution was seen as excessive by many Western countries, and global stars like Madonna pledged their support.
Putin, who returned to a third historic presidential term in the Kremlin in May, has overseen the passage of a series of laws restricting freedom of speech and internet.
This month, a new blacklist of internet sites went into effect that allows the government to block pages with banned content, including extremism.
Critics have said the new law's vague wording can be exploited, while observers say the blacklist is a clear step toward wide-ranging web restrictions similar to those in China.
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