Russia’s campaign against unauthorized online gambling operators has extended to social networks both foreign and domestic.

For months now, Russian telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor has been adding hundreds of unauthorized online gambling domains to its burgeoning online blacklist on a weekly basis. Earlier this month, Roskomnadzor began blacklisting social media accounts belonging to online gambling sites.

A hint of this new strategy, which aims to enforce prohibitions on promoting or facilitating online gambling or communicating means of circumventing domain blocks, came this month when three betting sites found their Twitter accounts suspended for at the time unexplained reasons.

Roskomnadzor has now formally copped to warning the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Russian social media network VKontakte to suspend accounts deemed to have flouted the prohibition. VKontake alone blocked some 250 accounts linked to over 40 bookmakers, including Fonbet, Marathon and 1xBet.