I wonder if the fines are even paid or if they accumulate until the second coming?
The streaming service Twitch continues to flirt with its position in the Russian market for reasons that are difficult to explain from the point of view of simple logic. Formally, Twitch has not left it and even continues to accept payment for subscriptions in rubles with great pleasure, but at the same time refuses to comply with the requirements of Russian legislation. In this case, all that Roskomnadzor requires the platform to do.
This results in the content banned in Russia not being removed from Twitch, and the platform is regularly subject to large fines. Today, for example, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Twitch 5 million rubles for failure to comply with Roskomnadzor’s requirements.
It is not specified what specific violations were recorded on Twitch, but it is easy to guess that these include so-called trash streams, discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, and fakes about a special military operation.
It is not entirely clear how the fines are paid and whether they are paid at all, or whether they accumulate until the second coming of the collective West with its companies to Russia and until the West completely and unconditionally lifts all illegal restrictions (“sanctions”) imposed on Russia. Let us recall that this is the condition for normalizing Russian-Western relations officially announced at the highest level in the Russian Federation. Restrictions are illegal by definition, which means that they must not only be lifted, but also compensation must be paid in favor of Russia.
