US EditionRussia Launches 30K Cases Over Social Media Use Since 2010 – Novaya Gazeta Europe
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Russia Launches 30K Cases Over Social Media Use Since 2010 – Novaya Gazeta Europe
Russian law enforcement authorities have launched more than 30,000 criminal and administrative cases for social media posts, shares and “likes” since 2010, the independent news website Novaya Gazeta Europe reported Monday.
Since 2010, Russia has drawn up more than 36,000 administrative reports and opened more than 1,400 criminal cases for publications on the Internet, according to a study by Novaya Gazeta Europe. Of these, 12,000 protocols were drawn up for images published on the Internet, 10,000 for posts, 6,000 for videos, 4,000 for audio, 3,000 for comments, and more than 1,000 for messages and reposts. According to the newspaper, Russians are most often perse…
In early November, a court in Moscow fined a Moscow State University student 500,000 rubles for saving rainbow flag pictures on VKontakte. In total, since the early 2010s, more than 30,000 cases have been filed in Russia for Internet activity — memes, calls for protests, comments and reposts, according to New Europe. Security forces find defendants through denunciations, searches at airports and in leaked databases, and the range of prohibited t…
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