Russian state news agency TASS cited an anonymous source familiar with the situation as saying that the fines were handed out for “articles about the coronavirus infection.” In mid-March, Solovei alleged in an interview to Echo Moskvy that the government was lying when it said no one had died in the country from the coronavirus and at least 1,600 people might have died since mid-January. Russian... 

Russian Human Rights association Agora has addressed the Prosecutor General with a request to stop the practice of blocking access to the infamous anti-Islamic film before there is a court ruling on the subject. Agora reminded in its letter that neither the Prosecutor General’s Office nor the Federal Service for Control over Communications have the right to demand the blocking of access to information...