On April 5, 2013, it was confirmed by a spokesperson for Roskomnadzor that Wikipedia had been blacklisted over the article 'Cannabis smoking' (Курение каннабиса) on Russian Wikipedia.[13][14] On March 31, 2013 The New York Times reported that Russia was beginning 'Selectively Blocking [the] Internet'.[15] In 2014, during the Crimea Crisis, Roskomnadzor had a number of websites criticising Russian policy in Ukraine blocked, including the blog of Alexei Navalny, Kasparov.ru and Грани.ру [ru].[16] Also, on June 22, 2016 Amazon Web Services was entirely blocked for a couple of hours because of a poker app.[17][18]