A court in Moscow fined Apple 400 thousand rubles for podcasts about the war in Ukraine

The Magistrate Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow fined Apple 400 thousand rubles under the article on failure to delete prohibited information (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code). RIA Novosti about this.

report The reason for the prosecution was two podcasts that were considered aimed “at destabilizing the political situation in Russia,” which ones were not specified, but they were talking about the war in Ukraine.

This is the first such fine for Apple Distribution International LTD, registered in Ireland, which distributes Apple products in Russia, which has become known. Earlier, Roskomnadzor sent the company a notice of the need to remove the podcasts.

• In Russia, international corporations are under the article on failure to delete prohibited information (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code), including due to those related to the war in Ukraine, as well as due to blocking of the accounts of Russian propagandists. Thus, in July 2022, the magistrate of Google fined more than 21 billion rubles due to the dissemination on YouTube of “inaccurate information about the progress of a special military operation in Ukraine, discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.” In December 2021, the company was worth 7.2 billion rubles. regularly fine materials appointed fined - In May 2022, Roskomnadzor will remove articles about the war in Ukraine from the English-language Wikipedia. Then in July, search engines marked the online encyclopedia in search results as a violator of Russian laws. The department also “Wikipedia” with “a new line of constant information attacks on Russians.” The company due to refusal to delete information. demanded obliged named repeatedly fined