Edit: So Meduza is full of it. There was a misunderstanding about a vkontakte/steamcommunity page that was about two years old wherein there was a post about "20 reasons to smoke marijuana" or some junk by an inactive user who already had a VAC ban to his or her name. Whether or not you should boast about doing drugs on a public forum (maybe don't do it - listen to Jeff, kids), or that an authoritarian government wants to decide that for you, is another matter. Thanks @DeMario



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Original Russian link (google translate doesn't wanna work right now)

https://meduza.io/news/2015/01/26/roskomnadzor-vnes-steam-v-reestr-zapreschennyh-saytov

Bad translation of article pasted in as follows:

Roskomnadzor announced the introduction of digital distribution service computer games and programs Steam in the register of banned sites. Such a decision, according to a report published in the official account Roskomnadzora in social network "VKontakte", was made in connection "with the dissemination of information on Narcotic Drugs." The report Roskomnadzora stresses that repeatedly tried to contact with the Steam and notify them of the detected violations, but there was no response. In this regard, the supervisory authority asks "all concerned to help with the search for resource administration and informing them about the requirements Roskomnadzora." Roscomnadzor executes orders agencies to ban the various pages on the Internet. For example, it may require to remove information about suicide, drugs, riots and so on. On the removal of material resource owners assigned a certain time, after which oblige providers to block pages on the territory of Russia. Due to the imperfect technology as a result of blocked are not only prohibited the page, but also the entire site. A similar thing happened with YouTube, Vimeo, «Wikipedia» and other resources. In Steam as of September 2014 there were more than 100 million active accounts.

As context, Roskomnadzor is the Russian government's communications regulatory body (internet "watchdog" of sorts, but not very good at it), while Meduza itself is a relatively new Russian news site staffed by former Lenta.ru people and it has a somewhat anti-Kremlin stance (given that it operates out of Riga and thus outside of Russian jurisdiction), not to mention the fact that the announcement was made on VKontakte (the Russian Facebook), so make of that what you will. I doubt it will come to pass.

On the upshot, if Steam does get outright banned (despite the huge amount of money it rakes in for Valve and other e-payment services here that have vested interests in people using it) there'll probably be far less Russian screaming in your DOTA 2 public matches.