Twitter has paid no fines in Russia. Court turns to bailiffs for enforcement

The Tagansky Court of Moscow has referred to the Federal Bailiff Service for compulsory collection of fines imposed on Twitter in 2021 for violations of Russian law. The court’s press service told «Интерфаксу».

“Due to the expiration of the deadline for voluntary compliance with the court’s decision, materials for enforcement of the decision to collect fines imposed on Twitter have been sent to the bailiffs today,” said press secretary Zulfia Gurinchuk.

According to those decisions already in force, the social network must pay 8.9 million rubles. Other rulings have either been appealed or have not yet come into force; for some, Twitter still has time to settle voluntarily.

Deputy head of Roskomnadzor Vadim Subbotin also told ТАСС that the agency may apply turnover fines to Google, Facebook and Twitter for not removing prohibited content. The amount of such fines depends on the company’s revenue.

R рассказ, Roskomnadzor с 10 марта began slowing Twitter’s operations in Russia on 10 March due to the platform’s refusal to delete content that the agency deemed unlawful. In May Roskomnadzor partially lifted these restrictions.

In addition to Twitter, fines for failing to remove content prohibited in Russia were imposed on nearly all major social networks, including TikTok, Facebook, VKontakte and the Telegram messenger.

In the press service of the Tagansky Court of Moscow заявили that Google and TikTok are the only foreign companies voluntarily paying the fines imposed.

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