Is it possible to block traffic originating from a specific country?

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Published on 2011-01-09T22:24:55Z Indexed on 2011/01/09 22:58 UTC
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Hi guys,

My personal website is currently getting a lot of spam comments at the moment, and most of them originate from Russia (I've used Google Analytics to identify the traffic, and a lot of the links link to Russian sites). As it's a pain to keep deleting this comments, I would like to ban people from there commenting or visiting the website. Is this possible?

Also, the website is using WordPress.

Many thanks!

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