Foreign media agents in Russia fined for lack of labeling

The report says that on February 2 the magistrate's court ruled on administrative punishment of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty * and its general director for the lack of labeling of information that is distributed on the websites of foreign media agents, including Idel.Realii, “ TV channel Present Time "," Siberia.

Realities ”,“ Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ”.

The punishment was imposed on the basis of the protocols that were drawn up by Roskomnadzor under Art.

19.34.1 of the Administrative Code of Russia.

"The owner of the media, LLC Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, was fined 2 million rubles (four minutes of 500 thousand rubles each), the general director of the organization - 200 thousand rubles (four minutes of 50 thousand rubles each)," they said at Roskomnadzor.

In December, it was reported that the register of foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent includes 12 media outlets.

* Media recognized as a foreign agent by the decision of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation dated 05.12.2017.