Russian ex-footballer files suit against Facebook over blocking posts with his last nameA court in Moscow is to hear a lawsuit of football coach and former football player of the Russian national team Dmitry Khokhlov seeking to recover from Facebook 150 million rubles ($2 million) in compensation for non-pecuniary damage suffered due to the blocking of posts and comments, which mention his name.17:37 22.09.2021
Russian investigators open case over yet another Nazi photo on Immortal Regiment websiteThe Russian Investigative Committee has initiated a criminal case over rehabilitation of Nazism against a resident of the Republic of Bashkortostan, who posted a photograph of Nazi Field Marshal Paul von Kleist on the Immortal Regiment website.17:35 21.09.2021
Russia’s Civic Chamber member urges defining of Columbine as terrorist communityThe recognition of the destructive Columbine movement as a terrorist one is to give law enforcement agencies additional opportunities to combat such communities and their creators, member of Russia’s Civic Chamber, Director of the Internet Safety League Yekaterina Mizulina believes.16:26 20.09.2021
Russian authority urges Twitter to explain blocking of Moscow Election Commission accountRussian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has sent a letter to the management of Twitter Inc demanding the company to explain as soon as possible its reasons for imposing restrictions on the account of the Moscow City Election Commission.16:01 17.09.2021
Russian investigators open case over inducement to single voting days riotsA criminal case has been opened over online inducing citizens to take part in mass riots on the single voting days.13:00 16.09.2021
Court in Moscow again fines Facebook, Twitter for for failing to remove banned contentA Moscow court has fined social media companies Facebook and Twitter for failing to delete content prohibited by Russian law.16:06 14.09.2021
Moscow court upholds sentence for ‘trash streamer’ guilty of beating modelMoscow's Presnensky District Court on Monday upheld the conviction and sentence of ‘trash streamer’ Andrey Burim (a.k.a Mellstroy) who mocked and violently abused a model during a live broadcast.10:44 13.09.2021
Google challenges dismissal of its claim against Russian communications watchdogGoogle LLC has filed an appeal against the dismissal of its claim against Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor seeking to establish that the agency unlawfully restricted access to 12 YouTube links it said demonstrated illegal content.10:53 10.09.2021
YouTuber to stand trial for alleged spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccineAnton Myslivets, owner of a channel on YouTube and VKontakte social network, will face trial for alleged spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccine.16:05 09.09.2021
Nearly 4,000 fake news about Russian elections revealed on Internet in two monthsSince the beginning of July, 3,800 fake news about the State Duma and regional election campaign have been revealed on the Internet, according to a member of Russia’s Civic Chamber Commission on Development of Information Community, Mass Media, and Mass Communications, Director of the Internet Safety League Yekaterina Mizulina.14:21 31.08.2021
Russian watchdog fines Booking.com $17.5 mln for abuse of market powerThe Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has fined Booking.com B.V. managing Booking.com aggregator (The Netherlands) 1.3 billion rubles ($17.5 million) for abusing market dominance.10:53 27.08.2021
Moscow court bans YouTube from distributing video promoting train hoppingMoscow’s Meshchansky District Court on Wednesday granted a lawsuit filed by transport prosecutors and prohibited publishing of video records promoting and justifying train hitching on YouTube platform.12:05 25.08.2021
Google fined over $80K for refusal to delete banned informationGoogle LLC was fined 6 million rubles ($80,000) on Wednesday for refusal to remove prohibited content.13:26 19.08.2021
Google fined $200,000 by Russian court for refusal to delete prohibited informationA magistrate judge of Moscow’s Tagansky district has fined Google 14 million rubles (about $200,000) for refusal to delete information banned by Russian legislation from a messenger.10:29 18.08.2021
Google's claim over blocking YouTube videos dismissed in RussiaThe Moscow Commercial Court has dismissed Google LLC's claim against the Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor seeking that the restriction of access to 12 links to illegal content on YouTube was recognized as unlawful.17:46 04.08.2021
Russian Justice Ministry proposes to provide free legal aid on Internet for 2 yearsThe Russian Ministry of Justice proposes to organize an experiment on the provision of free legal aid through electronic services; a part of this pilot project is to be the creation of information system Legal Assistance.17:39 03.08.2021
Moscow Bar Association: law firm websites not obliged to use "foreign agent" designationsWebsites of law firms cannot be defined as a mass media outlets, so they have no obligation to use the "foreign agent" designation to label foreign-funded organisations that are engaged in political activity, according to the decision of the Moscow Bar Association.14:08 23.07.2021
Moscow court fines Twitter $75K for failure to remove prohibited informationA magistrate court in Moscow has fined Twitter 5.5 million rubles (about $75,000) for refusing to remove information prohibited by Russian law.11:31 23.07.2021
Russian watchdog demands Google lift restrictions on senator Pushkov’s YouTube channelRussia's communications watchdog has sent Google LLC a letter demanding that all restrictions on senator Alexey Pushkov’s YouTube channel be lifted as soon as possible.14:06 19.07.2021
Outside firm prohibited from using Vkontakte users’ dataThe Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has granted an application filed by Vkontakte social network against Double Data seeking to cancel the latter company’s use of open data provided by users on the social network to sell its own services.12:03 07.07.2021