The Tagansky district court in Moscow fined Twitter 3.2 million rubles for refusing to remove information calling on minors to participate in an unauthorised protest, according to TASS.
The court found Twitter guilty under part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation — “violation of the procedure for restricting access to information, access to which is subject to restriction under Russian law.”
The court fined Twitter a further 3.3 million rubles. Three protocols against Facebook are pending.
Twitter also received its third fine, amounting to 2.4 million rubles.
The consideration of the protocols against Facebook has been postponed to May 4, as representatives of the company did not appear in court.
Similar protocols for Google, Telegram and TikTok were drawn up by Roskomnadzor over the posting of information “the access to which must be restricted under Russian law.”
The hearing on Google is also scheduled for May 4, with Telegram and TikTok protocols to be considered on April 6.
Since March 10, Roskomnadzor has begun slowing Twitter’s operations in Russia due to the company’s refusal to delete content deemed prohibited under Russian law.
Roskomnadzor also warned that full blocking of the social network in Russia remains possible.
Twitter representatives said they were deeply concerned by attempts to block and restrict public communication online.
Later, the agency said that Twitter had begun deleting prohibited content, though the pace of its deletion was described as “unsatisfactory”.
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