Russia convicts Meta's Andy Stone for justifying terrorism post Ukraine invasion. Hate speech policy changes result in criminal case. Meta ...

Russia has been at loggerheads with foreign technology companies over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dis...

Moscow has clashed with foreign technology companies over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dispute that in...

Dubai-based Telegram was ordered to pay 4 million roubles ($47,525), Interfax said, and the Japanese company behind Viber was fined 1 milli...

Although WhatsApp's parent company Meta Platforms Inc was last year banned in Russia as an "extremist" organisation, the messenger app - wh...

Russia has battled big tech companies to control the flow of information after it sent troops to Ukraine on Feb. 24, slowing Twitter's serv...

Moscow's Tagansky District Court fined WhatsApp 18 million roubles ($301,255) and Snap 1 million roubles, news agencies reported. WhatsApp ...

Daria Kasatkina, who is currently Russia's number one singles player, opened up in an interview with blogger Vitya Kravchenko.

Tech companies are frequently slapped with fines by Russia for not deleting content on the request of authorities.

YouTube, which has blocked Russian state-funded media globally, is under heavy pressure from Russia's communications regulator and politici...

The Russian foreign ministry said the travel restrictions on 29 Americans and 61 Canadians -- which also includes defence officials, busine...

Russia has already banned Facebook for restricting access to Russian media while Instagram was blocked after Meta said it would allow socia...

The court was considering a request by prosecutors to designate Meta -- the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp -- as an "ex...

A Meta spokesperson confirmed it had temporarily eased its rules for political speech, allowing posts such as "death to the Russian invader...

UKRAINE-CRISIS-META-PLATFORMS-RUSSIA-Russian prosecutors ask court to name Meta as "extremist organisation" - Interfax

The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said there had been 26 cases of discrimination against Russian media by Facebook since October 2020, including...

The bill sets out jail terms of varying lengths and fines against people who publish "knowingly false information" about the military.