The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Telegram 14.6 million rubles (about $176,000) for not removing the prohibited content. The news was reported by the correspondent of “Interfax” from the courtroom.

In the justification of the court, it is written that Telegram did not comply with the request of the Russian authorities and did not remove the content prohibited in Russia.

Telegram has been fined several times in Russia in similar cases.

At the end of July, Russia initiated a criminal case against Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, and announced an international investigation against him on the charge of “supporting terrorist activities”.

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