MOSCOW, November 13 - RAPSI. The editors of the Lurkmore website, which was blocked on Monday, have tweeted about their decision to take down a contentious article from the site.

"We'll try to set a precedent by taking down the controversial article and we'll see if we are unblocked," the team posted on their Twitter account.

On Monday, the Russian online encyclopedia Lurkmore was put on the list of banned websites and its IP was frozen. Nikolai Kartashov, an official spokesman for the Federal Service for Drug Control, reported that the agency found that the site contained articles which promoted drug use.

Lurkmore is a popular online resource that collects information about internet memes, celebrities, websites and subcultures. With a Wikipedia style structure, articles are created and edited by users.

The newly adopted law on Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development stipulates the development of an automated information system, the Unified Register of Domain and Indexes of Internet Websites and Web-resources which Allow Websites to Be Identified as Containing Information Whose Distribution in Russia is Forbidden, from November 1.

If a site contains child porn, suicide or drug making instructions, it can be shut down even before a trial. As regards other prohibited information, the decision on whether to close the website will be taken on the basis of the court ruling.