Russia’s technology regulatory agency on Friday restricted access to Instagram after Parent company Meta PlatformsSome countries have begun allowing people to use the internet to demand violence against Russia’s President and Military. 

Russia earlier Friday opened a criminal case against Meta And sought to make it an extremist group because of a temporary change in hate speech policy, which allowed for threats on Instagram and Facebook during Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

Roskomnadzor, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, said that Instagram’s access limitations will be “based on the order of the Prosecutor general’s Office of the Russian Federation.”

Russia already blocked access in the country to Facebook on March 4 after the platform put limits on government-affiliated media outlets on the heels of the Ukraine invasion.

As of November 2018, Instagram and Facebook had over 60 million Russian users. according to the data site Statista.

Reuters first reported that change to Meta’s hate speech policy Thursday,Citing internal email messages from the company.

This policy permits Instagram users from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland to demand the execution of President Vladimir Putin in Russia and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. These two countries are known allies.

The law also permits violence to be used against Russian soldiers living in these three countries and others throughout Eastern Europe and the Baltics as well.

We have made temporary allowances as a result the Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine. These forms of political expression would ordinarily violate our rules, such violent speech or ‘death’ to Russian invaders. “We still refuse to allow credible calls of violence against Russian civilians,” a Meta spokesperson stated in a statement.

CNBC reported Thursday that the use of virtual private networksRussia’s booming market for e-commerce is allowing users to get around restrictions placed on apps and websites by the government.

According to SensorTower data, there’s been an 1,500% rise in downloads for the top 10 VPN apps on Apple’s App Store or Google Play Store Russia since February 24, compared to the previous 13-day period.

Twitter on Thursday took down two tweets by Russia’s embassy In the United Kingdom, for the “denial of violent incidents” during the attack on Ukraine. 

Russia’s Embassy claimed that a photograph of casualties in Mariupol’s children’s hospital was actually of a Ukrainian “beauty blogger”, implying that it was propaganda.

According to officials from Ukraine, at least one child died and two others were hurt in the accident.