A court in St. Petersburg fined an internet service provider for providing access to YouTube
A court in St. Petersburg has fined the internet service provider "Tinko" 250,000 rubles for violating traffic routing requirements.
This was reported by Daria Lebedeva, head of the press service for the city courts.
According to the case file, in December 2025, the provider failed to ensure that traffic passed through technical measures designed to counter threats. As a result, YouTube was fully accessible on its network, and the relevant sessions were not recorded by monitoring systems.
Although the penalty under the article provides for a fine of 500,000 rubles, the court imposed a penalty below the minimum threshold. This was explained by the fact that the standard penalty does not correspond to the nature of the offense.
Earlier, the St. Petersburg authorities officially announced the introduction of restrictions on mobile internet access, citing security measures as the reason.
Internet access was lost in the building of the Russian State Duma amid widespread network restrictions in Moscow.
