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Twitch fined $70k for failure to remove prohibited content

A magistrate judge has fined video streaming service Twitch 4 million rubles (about $70,000 at the current exchange rate) for refusal to delete information prohibited by Russian law.

12:20 04.10.2022

Moscow court fines Twitch $50,000 for not complying with request to remove banned content

A magistrate court in Moscow has fined video streaming service Twitch Interactive 3 million rubles (about $50k at the current exchange rate) for failure to remove information prohibited by Russian law.

13:28 30.08.2022

Google to be blocked in Donetsk People’s Republic

Authorities of the Donetsk People’s Republic have decided to block Google on the region’s territory.

12:49 22.07.2022

Russian court fines Google subsidiary $390M for repeated content violation

Google's Russian subsidiary on Monday was fined 21.8 billion rubles (about $390 million at the time of writing) by Moscow’s Tagansky District Court for repeated refusal to remove content prohibited by Russian law.

15:32 18.07.2022

Russian President Putin signs law on retaliatory blocking of foreign media in Russia

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a bill empowering Prosecutor General and his deputies to prohibit foreign mass media in Russia in response to unfriendly actions by foreign states regarding Russian media working abroad into law.

17:38 15.07.2022

Opposition figure Yashin suspected of distributing fakes about Russian army - lawyer

Investigators opened a criminal case over distribution of fake information on the use of Russia’s armed forces against opposition figure Ilya Yashin, his attorney Vadim Prokhorov told RAPSI on Wednesday.

11:55 13.07.2022

Russia’s State Duma backs creation of extremist materials database

The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, adopted a bill to create a specialized information database of extremist materials in a final third reading on Tuesday.

13:24 05.07.2022

About 517,000 crimes with use of infocomm technologies registered in Russia in 2021

By the end of 2021, about 517,000 crimes committed using information and communication technologies (ICT) were registered in Russia, according to Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for International Legal Cooperation, Head of the Organizational and Legal Department of the Prosecutor General's Office Sergey Plokhov.

15:59 29.06.2022

Cabinet proposes to classify information on Russia’s gold and currency reserves

The Government has submitted a bill to classify information on Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves, to the lower house of parliament.

13:59 10.06.2022

Facebook failed to voluntary pay $360K fines – Moscow court

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow has forwarded to the Federal Bailiff Service an order for the enforced recovery of 26 million rubles ($360,000) imposed on Facebook Inc as fines for refusal to delete banned content.

18:39 07.10.2021

Twitter to pay $75,000 for failure to delete banned content – Moscow court

The Tagansky District Court upheld fines worth 5.5 million rubles (over $75,000) imposed on Twitter Inc for failure to delete information banned by Russian legislation.

17:29 07.10.2021

Moscow court upholds $83,000 fines imposed on Facebook

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court on Wednesday upheld administrative fines worth 6 million rubles ($83,000) imposed on Facebook social network.

18:03 06.10.2021

Moscow court to notify Facebook on claim of footballer Khokhlov under Hague Convention

A court in Moscow, in accordance with the Hague Convention, will notify Facebook Inc about the claim of football coach Dmitry Khokhlov seeking to recover from the company 150 million rubles ($2 million) in compensation for non-pecuniary damage suffered due to the blocking of posts and comments, which mention his name.

14:18 05.10.2021

Russian Justice Ministry drops claim against Chamber of lawyer of ex-journalist accused of treason

The Kuibyshevsky court of St. Petersburg has terminated the proceedings initiated by the Russian Justice Ministry against the city’s chamber of lawyers in relation to the case of Ivan Pavlov, a lawyer for former journalist Ivan Safronov accused of treason, for allegedly disclosing information related to a police investigation.

10:57 01.10.2021

Facebook receives $360K fine payment reprieve – Moscow court

Facebook Inc has obtained a delay for the payment of fines making in total of 26 million rubles (about $360,000) until October 4.

10:17 30.09.2021

Google fined $90,000 for breaching information access guarding

A magistrate judge on Wednesday fined Google LLC 6.5 million rubles ($90,000) for two cases of violating the order of the restriction of access to information.

17:12 29.09.2021

Facebook seeks to delay payment of fines totaling to $360,000 in Russian court

On the last day of the deadline for the voluntary payment of fines making in total of 26 million rubles (about $360,000), Facebook Inc company asked the court for a postponement.

18:16 28.09.2021

Russian communications watchdog starts development of social networks register

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has started to form a register of social networks. It already includes Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Likee, Youtube, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.

10:44 23.09.2021

Moscow court upholds fine imposed on TikTok for failure to delete banned content

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court on Monday upheld imposition of a 1.5-million-ruble fine (over $20,000) on TikTok for failure to remove information banned by Russian legislation from the platform.

15:18 20.09.2021

Russian socialist’s appeal against sentence for aiding riots set for September

The Moscow City Court has set an appeal filed by the leader of the movement For New Socialism Nikolay Platoshkin against his sentence for aiding and abetting mass riots and distribution of misleading information for September 3.

16:34 31.08.2021