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A Moscow court has fined Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) after ruling that it had failed to comply with a Russian law regulating media outlets branded by the government as “foreign agents.”

The Tverskoi district court on July 5 ordered RFE/RL to pay 100,000 rubles ($1,600) after the judge rejected a demand by the company’s defense lawyer to postpone the hearing.

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