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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

User of Russian social network fined $17 for posting Nazi flag

The Kirovsky District Court of the city of Volgograd fined a local resident for publicly displaying Nazi symbols, as reported by the press service of the courts of the Volgograd region.

16:06 24.08.2022

Russian Ministry proposes compensations to right holders for online content blocking

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has drafted a bill providing for compensation of up to 5 million rubles (about $88,000 at the time of writing) for copyright infringement related to illegal blocking of online content.

12:29 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

State Duma adopts bill on retaliatory blocking of foreign media in Russia

The State Duma on Thursday passed a bill empowering Prosecutor General and his deputies to ban foreign mass media in Russia in response to hostile actions by foreign states regarding Russian media working abroad.

14:15 30.06.2022

Government pushes for development of Russian app store

Russia's government has submitted a bill requiring the development of a Russian mobile app store and its pre-installation on electronic devices and smartphones to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.

15:10 23.06.2022

Russian court fines Swiss Threema $14K for breaching rules for messaging providers

An 800,000-ruble (about $14K) fine has been imposed on Threema GmbH for failure to comply with Russian legislation governing instant messaging providers.

15:54 16.06.2022

Russian lawmakers advance bill banning websites advertising tobacco products

Russian lawmakers have submitted a bill to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, proposing to consider websites advertising tobacco products as information prohibited for spreading.

11:12 14.06.2022

Over 400,000 materials with prohibited content removed since January by Russian regulator

In the period from January through September this year, more than 427,000 materials with prohibited content were blocked on the Internet.

16:51 19.10.2021

Moscow lawmaker fined nearly $3,000 for breaching rally organization order

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday fined the Moscow City Duma lawmaker representing the Communist Party of Russia Yekaterina Yengalycheva 200,000 rubles (about $3,000) for breaching the order of holding a public event.

16:36 11.10.2021

Navalny’s suit against prosecutors, Roskomnadzor over website blocking rejected

Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday dismissed an administrative lawsuit filed by Alexey Navalny against the Prosecutor General’s Office and Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor over blocking of his websites.

15:55 11.10.2021

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

Russia’s Communist Party files 32 lawsuits seeking to cancel electronic voting results

The Moscow Presnensky District Court has registered 32 administrative claims filed by the Russian Communist Party and candidates for State Duma lawmakers seeking to cancel the results of electronic voting.

14:26 30.09.2021

Russian Supreme Court head urges to create international e-platform for judicial interaction

Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev proposes to create an international electronic platform for judicial interaction for the exchange of documents on international legal assistance.

11:30 30.09.2021

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

Drug propaganda case hearing against YouTube blogger Yury Dud to be resumed in October

Moscow’s Zyuzinsky District Court will resume hearing of a case against prominent Russian YouTube blogger Yury Dud over drug propaganda on October 20.

16:52 28.09.2021

Navalny’s suit against Prosecutor General’s Office, Roskomnadzor set for October

Moscow's Tverskoy District Court has set October 11 as a date for the consideration of an administrative lawsuit filed by Alexey Navalny against the Prosecutor General’s Office and Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.

12:56 23.09.2021

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