diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 6c3c095f7..cdfa7000b 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -547,6 +547,34 @@ def _guess_encoding_from_content(content_type, webpage_bytes):
 
         return encoding
 
+    def __check_blocked(self, content):
+        first_block = content[:512]
+        if ('<title>Access to this site is blocked</title>' in content and
+                'Websense' in first_block):
+            msg = 'Access to this webpage has been blocked by Websense filtering software in your network.'
+            blocked_iframe = self._html_search_regex(
+                r'<iframe src="([^"]+)"', content,
+                'Websense information URL', default=None)
+            if blocked_iframe:
+                msg += ' Visit %s for more details' % blocked_iframe
+            raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)
+        if '<title>The URL you requested has been blocked</title>' in first_block:
+            msg = (
+                'Access to this webpage has been blocked by Indian censorship. '
+                'Use a VPN or proxy server (with --proxy) to route around it.')
+            block_msg = self._html_search_regex(
+                r'</h1><p>(.*?)</p>',
+                content, 'block message', default=None)
+            if block_msg:
+                msg += ' (Message: "%s")' % block_msg.replace('\n', ' ')
+            raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)
+        if ('<title>TTK :: Доступ к ресурсу ограничен</title>' in content and
+                'blocklist.rkn.gov.ru' in content):
+            raise ExtractorError(
+                'Access to this webpage has been blocked by decision of the Russian government. '
+                'Visit http://blocklist.rkn.gov.ru/ for a block reason.',
+                expected=True)
+
     def _webpage_read_content(self, urlh, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None, fatal=True, prefix=None, encoding=None):
         content_type = urlh.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
         webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
@@ -588,25 +616,7 @@ def _webpage_read_content(self, urlh, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errno
         except LookupError:
             content = webpage_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
 
-        if ('<title>Access to this site is blocked</title>' in content and
-                'Websense' in content[:512]):
-            msg = 'Access to this webpage has been blocked by Websense filtering software in your network.'
-            blocked_iframe = self._html_search_regex(
-                r'<iframe src="([^"]+)"', content,
-                'Websense information URL', default=None)
-            if blocked_iframe:
-                msg += ' Visit %s for more details' % blocked_iframe
-            raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)
-        if '<title>The URL you requested has been blocked</title>' in content[:512]:
-            msg = (
-                'Access to this webpage has been blocked by Indian censorship. '
-                'Use a VPN or proxy server (with --proxy) to route around it.')
-            block_msg = self._html_search_regex(
-                r'</h1><p>(.*?)</p>',
-                content, 'block message', default=None)
-            if block_msg:
-                msg += ' (Message: "%s")' % block_msg.replace('\n', ' ')
-            raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=True)
+        self.__check_blocked(content)
 
         return content