Moscow City Court overturns decision to ban YaPlakal

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The court banned the YaPlakal portal in Russia. The decision was issued by Moscow's Chertanovsky District Court following a prosecutor's lawsuit that checked compliance with legislation in the sphere of interethnic relations. The agency said that on the site, as well as on two other resources...

Moscow City Court overturns decision to ban YaPlakal

This was reported by the press service of Moscow's courts of general jurisdiction on its Telegram.

The key reason for the review of the case was the legal groundlessness of the original ban. As a TASS source in the judicial system clarified, after studying the materials on the YaPlakal resource, Russia's Supreme Court did not find any expert examination on the basis of which the publications should have been banned.

Recall that this week the Chertanovsky court had earlier, at the end of March, declared prohibited humorous sketches from the "YaPlakal" portal and two joke websites. They were found to contain statements degrading human dignity and aimed at discrimination based on nationality or race.