Russia ramps up pressure on foreign tech firms on eve of election
By Alexander Marrow
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday threatened U.S. social media firms with sizeable fines within the occasion that they fail to delete content material materials Moscow deems illegal and demanded Apple and Google stop allegedly meddling in its inside affairs on the eve of parliamentary elections.
Internet suppliers are coming beneath rising pressure ahead of Russia’s Sept. 17-19 parliamentary vote. Russia’s authorities have talked about foreign firms are hampering their efforts to dam digital personal networks (VPNs) and on-line property linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Now, a long-running dispute over banned content material materials seems set to maneuver up a gear after Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of state communications regulator Roskomnadzor, signalled sizeable fines have been doable.
“We will now ponder making use of turnover fines on these firms that systematically violate Roskomnadzor’s requires,” Interfax …