Moscow’s Tagansky District Court fined Telegram 4 million rubles for failing to remove information prohibited in Russia. This is stated on the official Telegram channel of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction.
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Messenger was found guilty of committing a crime provided for in Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for restricting access to information, access to which is subject to restrictions in accordance with the law).
The maximum penalty provided for in this article is a fine of 8 million rubles. Repeated violations result in negotiable fines. The report from the capital courts does not specify what information gave rise to the administrative action.
This is not the first time that Telegram has received a fine for prohibited content. On November 25, the Tagansky court imposed a fine of 7 million rubles on the platform under part 2 of article 13.41 of the Administrative Code.
In mid-October, the same court fined Telegram 4 million rubles. At the end of the month, TASS, citing a court decision, wrote that the reason for the fine was channels containing calls to separate the Urals from the rest of Russia.
The day before, December 2, Telegram in Russia experienced a massive outage. Several hundred users from Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Leningrad Region, Nizhny Novgorod Region and other regions complained about problems with access to the messenger. The majority (55%) reported problems with the mobile app.
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Timur Batyrov
Source: RB
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