Russia has blocked access to the website of French public broadcaster Radio France Internationale, a register maintained by Russia's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor showed on Friday.
Russia also blocked access to the Russian-language website of The Moscow Times due to a story about the conflict in Ukraine, the newspaper said.
The English-language website was unaffected though Russian internet providers started to block its Russian-language site after a notice from Russia's communications watchdog, the newspaper said.
The April 4 article was still on the newspaper's Russian website on Friday.
Russia's communications watchdog did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The newspaper, which has has covered Russia for three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, said on its English-language website that its Russian service was blocked after it published what "authorities call a false report on riot police officers refusing to fight in Ukraine".
Several Russian media outlets have chosen to suspend operations rather than face heavy restrictions on what they can report. The Kremlin has also blocked multiple foreign news outlets, including RFE/RL.