MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS/. The Tagansky District Court in Moscow has fined the US technology major Apple 3.6 mln rubles ($36,810) for failingto delete information banned in Russia, TASS reports from the court room.

"The Court rules to recognize Apple Distribution International as liable for committing an administrative offense under Part 2, Art. 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (failure of the website owner to delete information in case responsibility for removing such information is stipulated by Russian laws) and set the administrative punishment against it in the form of the administrative fine of 3.6 million rubles," the judge announced.

This is not the first time when Apple is fined for failures to remove the prohibited content. The company was fined 400,000 rubles ($4,000) in August 2023.