Twitch filed a lawsuit against the son of the founder of Constantinople due to an unprecedented fine

The Malofev account was blocked in 2022 amid sanctions against his father, founder of the Tsargrad with Konstantin Malofev. Around 28,000 people were signed on the Nick Likkrit establishment channel.

Malofev appealed to the Petrovsky Court of Moscow with a demand for Twitch and Amazon to restore his profile with access to monetization. He also asked to recognize the unilateral negatives of companies of invalid contracts. The court decided to restore the account or pay a fine of 100 thousand rubles every day. Every week, while the account does not work, the fine doubled. The Arbitration Court also arrested the property of Amazon and Twitch for 3 billion rubles.

How much do they require with Twitch? Failure to comply with the decision led to the fact that the amount of the fine for Twitch due to accumulated sanctions has already exceeded the “money in the world”, the company presented in the federal court of the northern district of California in San Francisco. saying. The platform demanded to cancel the decision of the Russian court.

Twitch lawyers refer to the User Agreement, which establishes that such disputes must be considered exclusively in arbitration, and not in national courts. “The decision of the Russian court is contrary to both the Twitch User Agreement and international law,” said the company.

• A similar demand for Russian television channels, whose accounts blocked on YouTube, were fed to Google. At the end of January 2025, the claims of the plaintiffs for an American company reached 1.81 duodecillions of rubles. Duodecillion is a unit with 39 zeros.