Russia Blocks Finnish Bitcoin Exchange, Reasons Not Explained

Russia’s Administration for Telecom and Internet Roskomnadzor has blocked peer-to-peer local Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins. They have blacklisted the domain, and it is now inaccessible by Russian ISPs.
However, Nikolaus Kangas, CEO of LocalBitcoins, thinks that this ban is only temporary and stays optimistic about the future of his company in Russia and Bitcoin in general. At the end of August, about 1.35 million users from 249 countries were registered at LocalBitcoins, where the weekly volume of transactions on the platform exceeded $14 million.
It is possible to work around the block
Roskomnadzor blocked the site for ISPs back in July 2016. For over 2 months, LocalBitcoins did not release any response to this until September 10 in a blog post with additional information in Russian on how to work around the block in three steps.
The blog post states:

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2016-09-16.