Foreign tech firms have been warned against violating that law.

Russia passed a law in early March, soon after sending tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, that prohibits 'discrediting' the armed forces, with a sentence of up to 15 years. News agencies said the case had been drawn up in response to Twitch hosting an interview with Oleksiy Arestovych, and adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Twitch, owned by Amazon, was fined 4 million roubles ($68,000), the court said. News agencies reported that the case against TikTok was based on accusations that the company was 'promoting non-traditional values, LGBT, feminism and a distorted representation of traditional sexual values' on its platform. TikTok, owned by Beijing-based IT company ByteDance, was fined 3 million roubles ($51,000), Moscow's Tagansky District Court said. The fines mark the latest step in Moscow's long-running dispute with Big Tech, with penalties over content, demands over data storage and some outright bans. Interfax reported that a TikTok representative in the courtroom had insisted the proceedings be terminated, without giving further details. On Tuesday Russia fined TikTok for failing to delete content that violates Russian laws on 'LGBT propaganda' and streaming service Twitch for hosting a video interview with a Ukrainian political figure that Moscow said contained 'fake' information. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also told reporters in a conference call that Moscow had always been open to a negotiated end to the conflict.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was a 'positive step' that Mr Musk was outlining a possible peace deal, hours after Kyiv slammed Mr Musk's call for a negotiated settlement to Russia's seven-month-old conflict with Ukraine. The votes held in September were condemned as illegitimate by both Kyiv and Western governments. Mr Musk, the world's richest person, suggested on Monday that four annexed regions of Ukraine should redo referendums on joining Russia under the supervision of the United Nations. The Kremlin has thanked Tesla founder Elon Musk after the billionaire suggested his own controversial peace plan to end the war with Russia. In his latest Twitter stunt, the billionaire has offered advice on bringing about an end to the war, drawing condemnation from Ukraine and praise from Russia, writes Verity Bowman and Josie Ensor But analysts closely following Russian nuclear rhetoric have outlined a handful of scenarios.Įlon Musk is not one to shy away from controversy. Russian use of nuclear weapons in such a way would be unprecedented, so it is difficult to predict how such an attack might unfold. The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima had a yield of around 15kt However, even tactical nuclear weapons wield immense destructive power. Tactical weapons are also lower in explosive yields, such as the 10kt SSC-8. Nuclear weapons are generally classified as being either strategic or tactical, with the former deployed to win a war and the latter to win an individual battle.Īccording to the British security think tank Rusi, Russia’s tactical arsenal is limited in range to around 300 miles - compared to a 3,000-mile strategic nuclear missile. James Rothwell explores what would happen if he did. The Russian president’s latest threat of tactical nuclear weapons has revived fears he could drop an atomic bomb on Ukraine.

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