"The court ruled: to recognize the legal entity Twitter, Inc. guilty of an offense under Article. 19.7 of the Administrative Code of Russia (“Failure to submit information (information)”), and sentenced him to a fine of 3,000 rubles, ”Interfax quoted the judge as saying.
The company was assigned the lowest possible fine.
In January 2019, administrative cases were initiated in relation to Facebook and Twitter for non-compliance with the requirements on localization of personal data of Russians.
A leading analyst of the Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies, Urvan Parfentiev, in an interview with Nation News, appreciated the decision of Roskomnadzor to initiate administrative cases regarding Twitter and Facebook.