Moscow.- A Russian court on Tuesday imposed a fine of 2.6 million rubles ($ 34,000 or 28,883 euros) on Tik Tok, an application to create and share videos very popular among young people, for not having removed information about the protests in favor of the opponent Alexéi Navalni jailed last January.

A Moscow court found the Chinese social network guilty of an administrative offense for failing to remove information that urged teenagers to participate in “unauthorized protests,” according to the Interfax agency.

This Tuesday the court also had to analyze two offenses against the Russian social network Telegram for a similar offense but the hearing was postponed due to the absence of the parties, according to the Ría Nóvosti agency.

Russia’s telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor said it would also impose fines on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki (similar to Facebook), Facebook itself, Twitter and YouTube.

So far that regulator has already sanctioned the Internet group Mail.ru (4 million rubles, 56,354 dollars or 44,435 euros) for not having removed prohibited content from Odnoklassniki, and Twitter (almost 9 million rubles, 117,796 dollars or 99,979 euros ).

The protests to demand the release of Navalni, who was arrested in January as soon as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he had recovered from the poisoning he suffered in August 2020, took place on January 23 and 31, in addition to February 2. , when he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for an old criminal case.

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