Twitter keeps ignoring Russian law - official

MOSCOW, May 16 (Itar-Tass) - U.S. microblogging service Twitter continues to ignore Russian laws and authorities’ demands, Advisor of the upper house’s chairman Ruslan Gattarov said on Friday. The service barely reacted to the demands of the Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor in connection with fake accounts and libel. In particular, Russia accused Twitter of violating the law protecting personal data and limiting banned information on the web, said Gattarov. Twitter could be blocked in the whole of Russia, Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor Maxim Ksenzov told the Izvestia daily on Friday as “persisting in not fulfilling our demands” Tiwtter specially created the conditions which make blocking of the service in Russia “almost inevitable”, he said. Learn more on itar-tass.com