Moscow Court Fines Character.AI 7.5 Million Roubles for “LGBT Propaganda” and Failure to Remove Information

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court fined Character Technologies, Inc., the developer of the Character.AI service, 7.5 million roubles over two administrative protocols. Interfax reported .

The company was found guilty under Part 4 of Article 6.21 of Russia’s Code of Administrative Offenses – on so-called “LGBT propaganda” among minors online – and Part 2 of Article 13.41, which covers failure to remove information whose access must be restricted. The court did not specify which materials prompted the protocols or how the total fine was divided between the two articles.

A protocol under the article on “LGBT propaganda” was filed with the court on March 16, 2026. At the time, Mediazona wrote that the basis for the claim had not been disclosed. Kommersant reported that on March 10 Character Technologies had already been fined 3.5 million roubles under the article on failure to remove information.

If the case indeed concerned Part 4 of Article 6.21 and Part 2 of Article 13.41, the minimum combined fine for a legal entity would have been 2.8 million roubles and the maximum 9 million. The court did not explain in the open part of the hearing why it imposed an amount close to the upper end of that range.