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|seo_title=Twitch to Sue Russian Streamer
|seo_keywords=Twitch
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|tags=Twitch
|date=2025-02-25T14:55:51.000Z
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|source=Dot Esports
|url=https://www.polygon.com/gaming/528753/twitch-likkrit-russian-lawsuit-sanctions
|article=News/Twitch to Sue Russian Streamer
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|author=Andura
|category=Drama
|content=[[Companies/Twitch|Twitch]] is taking legal action against Russian streamer Kirill Konstantinovich Malofeyev, also known as "Likkrit," in order to protect itself from a lawsuit he filed that demands more money than is available in the world. This comes after the streamer, who is the son of Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, was suspended from the platform due to sanctions imposed by the United States in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

As reported by Polygon on February 25, Twitch suspended Malofeyev after the U.S. government placed sanctions on Russia. The sanctions were partly due to his association with his father and his involvement in a "worldwide sanctions evasion and malign influence network." Malofeyev filed two lawsuits against Twitch. The first was dismissed by Russian courts, while the second proceeded based on new Russian laws designed to counteract the sanctions. Ultimately, Malofeyev won the lawsuit, with the Russian court ordering Twitch to pay a fine of 100,000 rubles per day for as long as his account remains suspended, with the amount doubling every week “without limit.”

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Twitch's lawyers claim that the total fine is "larger than all the money in the world" and argue that it is "unjustified on any measure" considering Malofeyev's account only generated less than $2,000 in revenue when it was active. In 2023, Malofeyev took legal action in Turkey to enforce the Russian ruling on Amazon's Turkish branch. However, Twitch maintains that the ruling is invalid because Malofeyev's agreement was with Twitch, not Amazon, despite Twitch being a subsidiary of the tech giant. As a result, both Twitch and Amazon are now seeking legal protection through the U.S. legal system to prevent the Russian judgment from being enforced and to compel arbitration, according to the report.
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