Moscow court fines Pinterest, Twitch for failing to abide by Russian law

FILE PHOTO: A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed Pinterest logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian court has fined social networking sites Pinterest and Twitch in separate cases for violating local internet regulations, the court said on Wednesday on its Telegram channel.

Pinterest was fined 10 million roubles ($123,692) and Twitch received a 61,747,992-rouble fine.

Neither company immediately replied to a request for comment.

($1 = 80.8455 roubles)

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)