Reddit banned in Russia

The site is believed to have been banned over a discussion about how to cultivate hallucinogenic mushrooms on one of its 9,000 active forums.

The Russian media watchdog said it had tried to contact Reddit about the chat thread but had got no response.

Earlier in the week the same agency threatened to ban Reddit for discussions about growing marijuana.

The block was enacted by Roskomnadzor - Russia's Federal service for the Supervision of
Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media.

Roskomnadzor maintains the list of all sites banned in Russia and added Reddit to that roster at the behest of the country's national drug control agency, reported news site Meduza.

The agency also posted information about the block to its own page on Russia's VKontacte social network.