A Moscow court on Tuesday fined U.S. ecommerce giant Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) a total of 4 million roubles ($65,000) in two separate cases, Interfax reported.
Interfax said the court ruled that Amazon had failed to delete material relating to drug use and “propagandising suicide”, both of which are illegal under Russian law.
Although U.S.-based tech giants have come under increasing attack in Russia in recent months, with Meta (META.O) outlawed as an “extremist” organisation and Google and Apple fined, it is the first such penalty levied against Amazon.
Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.
Twitch has been fined before, for hosting video interviews with Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that Moscow said contained “fake” information.
On Tuesday, the state news agency TASS reported that one of the two 4-million-rouble penalties for Twitch concerned the broadcast of a new interview with Arestovych, conducted by a Russian lawyer who has been designated a ‘foreign agent’.
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Twitch did not respond to a request for comment, but TASS quoted Twitch’s lawyer as saying that the offending videos had been deleted by the time the cases were considered by the court.
Meta Platforms Inc. was found guilty of carrying out “extremist activities” and its social networks Facebook and Instagram were banned, while Alphabet’s Google has been fined for a string of alleged offences and its Russian subsidiary has filed for bankruptcy.
