GitHub has been fined 3.5 million rubles in Russia. The Tagansky District Court of Moscow found the platform guilty under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation — for failing to remove prohibited information or refusing to restrict access to it.
The court did not specify what material caused the proceedings. It is only known that the case is related to content that, according to Russian authorities, should have been removed or blocked for users.
GitHub is owned by Microsoft and is used by developers to store source code, collaborate on projects, and publish software repositories.
The fine of 3.5 million rubles was imposed specifically on GitHub Inc. The decision was made by the Tagansky Court of Moscow.
The editorial board has already written about fines for foreign platforms
The GitHub fine fits into the established practice of the Tagansky Court of Moscow, which regularly hears cases against foreign IT companies under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. We have already reported how, under the same article, Google was fined 3.8 million rubles for failing to remove prohibited information, and Discord was fined 3.5 million rubles for inaction regarding illegal content identified by Roskomnadzor. More recently, similar penalties of 3.5 million rubles were imposed on Telegram, Pinterest, and Likeme — under a related article, which obliges platforms to independently monitor and block prohibited publications. The amount of the fine for GitHub coincides with the most common amount of sanctions applied to foreign services in such cases.
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