RF Prosecutor General’s Office has demanded Telegram to remove Butusov Plus channel, and messenger has been fined 4 million rubles
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office demanded Telegram to remove the Butusov Plus channel and posts about Putin's niece. For refusal, the messenger was fined 4 million rubles.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to "Verstka".
As stated in the ruling of the Tagansky Court of Moscow, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the Butusov Plus Telegram channel and 5 other channels, as well as 11 Telegram posts about the Russian President's niece Anna Tsivilova, be removed, which, according to prosecutors, contained "inaccurate socially significant information".
According to the document, from October 2022 to March 2024, the prosecutor's office demanded that the channel of Ukrainian journalist Yurii Butusov and 5 other telegram channels be removed. It is not known which posts triggered the demands of the Russian prosecutor's office.
The prosecutor's office also demanded the removal of 11 posts that referred to the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation. In particular, that it had been allocated tens of billions of rubles from the budget and that it was run by the niece of the Russian president, Anna Tsivilova.
Telegram did not comply with the demands of the Russian prosecutor's office. As a result, on 13 August, the Tagansky Court of Moscow fined the messenger 4 million rubles for "failure to remove information prohibited in the Russian Federation".
