Russian court fines Twitch

A Moscow court fined Twitch 41.8 million rubles. According to RIA Novosti, a similar decision was made regarding the Wikimedia Foundation, which was ordered to pay another 10 million.

As the agency notes, both organizations were found guilty of repeated failure to fulfill the duties of a foreign Internet company. We are talking about Part 3 of Article 13.49 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which regulates failure to fulfill obligations on the territory of Russia.

“The court found Twitch Interactive, Inc.” and Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. guilty of committing administrative offenses (...) and imposed penalties on them in the form of administrative fines in the amount of more than 41.8 million rubles and 10 million rubles, respectively,” stated the press service of the Moscow City Court.