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Ex-MP Ponomarev arrested in absentia for spreading fakes about Russian army

A district court in Moscow has arrested former State Duma lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev in absentia in the case over discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

14:12 31.08.2022

Russian citizen sentenced to 7 years in prison for 30 false reports of terrorist attacks

The Oktyabrsky District Court of southern Russian city of Krasnodar sentenced local resident Alexey Lutsenko to 7 years and 1 month in a penal colony for 30 deliberately false reports of impending explosions, as reported by the Joint Press Service of the Courts of the Krasnodar Krai.

12:15 25.08.2022

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

Municipal lawmaker detained in Russian army fake case

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has placed municipal lawmaker Ilya Yashin in a case over fakes about Russian army in detention until September 12.

10:45 14.07.2022

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

Journalist Kara-Murza to stay in jail over fake news allegations

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court has extended the detention of journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza (declared a foreign agent) until August 12 in a case over fake stories about Russia’s army.

10:43 09.06.2022

Nearly 4,000 fake news about Russian elections revealed on Internet in two months

Since 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

Moscow metro coronavirus joke case returned to prosecutors

Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky District Court returned a case involving Karomatullo Dzhaborov, a pranker who had allegedly played several coronavirus jokes in the Moscow metro, to prosecutors.

18:12 02.02.2021

Moscow woman sentenced to community service for coronavirus fake distribution

The Kuntsevsky District Court on Thursday sentenced Olga Tolokevich residing in Moscow to 6 months of community service for distribution of a fake about moving of the bodies of people dead from coronavirus out of one of the city’s observation centres.

15:57 21.01.2021

Nizhny Novgorod Region's court fines journalist $4,000 for coronavirus fake

A court has fined journalist and admin of one of the Telegram channels Alexander Pichugin 300,000 rubles ($4,000) for distributing fake news about coronavirus.

12:05 11.11.2020

Number of fakes on foreign internet platforms increases – Russian communications agency

There is an increase in the number of fake publications distributed by foreign internet platforms, Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor reports Tuesday.

13:19 27.10.2020

Expert urges common liability mechanisms for authors of publications on internet

The state needs to take very serious steps for introducing common liability and control mechanisms applicable to all authors of online publications in order to fight dissemination of destructive and illegal materials over internet, First Deputy Chair of Russia’s Civic Chamber Commission on Development of the Information Community Alexander Malkevich believes.

15:08 19.10.2020

Over 8,000 COVID-19 fakes found on social networks in Russia since April

Over 8,000 fake reports about coronavirus have been revealed on social networks since the start of April, according to a member of the Russian Civic Chamber’s Media and Mass Comminications Commission Yekaterina Mizulina.

12:29 05.10.2020

Russian rights activists register about 3,000 pieces of fake news during single voting day

About three thousand pieces of fake news about the single election day have been registered over almost two weeks of monitoring.

12:27 14.09.2020

Radio fined $4K for fake about hospital equipment deficiency during pandemic

A magistrate court of Moscow’s Tverskoy district on Friday fined Radio Svoboda (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) 300,000 rubles ($4,000) for fake information on the equipment deficiency in St. Petersburg hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

15:24 28.08.2020

Over 4,000 websites distributing fakes blocked in Russia in 2020

More than 4,000 websites distributing fake information have been blocked at the request of prosecutors since the beginning of 2020.

14:38 30.07.2020

Man convicted of falsely alleging that illegal COVID-19 vaccination is underway in Russia

The Balakhinsky City Court in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Region has sentenced a local resident to 300 hours of compulsory community service for disseminating false allegations that coronavirus vaccination was illegally carried out in the country.

13:30 21.07.2020

Protection of Media Rights monitor reports on violations detected during pandemic

Higher incidence of attempts to sanction journalists for allegedly fake news, even in some cases where the respective information was later proved to be true, has been registered amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the press service of the Presidential Council for Human Rights citing the data presented by the Protection of Media Rights monitoring center.

15:01 16.07.2020

Russia’s Yugra resident faces fake COVID-19 news distribution trial

A resident of Russia’s Yugra, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, will stand trial on charges of distribution of fake news about coronavirus.

15:50 10.07.2020

More than 9,000 Constitution amendments vote fakes revealed – Russian Civic Chamber

Over 9,000 fake reports about the voting on Russia’s Constitution amendments have been revealed since June 5, according to Chair of the Civic Chamber’s Commission for Information, Mass Media and Communications Alexander Malkevich.

13:18 07.07.2020