MOSCOW, April 14: The editor-in-chief of a Russian newspaper was fined 100,000 roubles (3,000 euros) on Friday for publishing the Danish anti-Islam cartoon, Moscow Echo radio station reported.
Anna Smirnova, head of the Nach Region Plus newspaper in Vologda, northeastern Russia, was charged with inciting religious hatred after her paper reproduced a controversial cartoon first published in Denmark in September last year.—AFP