Putin signed laws on blocking and fines for fake news and disrespect for the state

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on fake news and disrespect for the state in publications. This is reported on the official website of legal information.

Now for unreliable socially important information, a fine of up to one and a half million rubles is possible. Also, if the publication does not immediately remove such information, the telecom operator is obliged to block it.

can be imposed. For the publication of information "expressing in an indecent form a clear disrespect for society, the state, the official state symbols of the Russian Federation, the Constitution of the Russian Federation and bodies exercising state power," a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles and arrest up to 15 days At the request of Roskomnadzor, the information must be deleted.

Changes have been made ( one , two ) to the Federal Law "On Information".

OVD-Info figured out how the new bills would work.