Russia's government censor, Roskomnadzor, has issued a warning to the website Judicial Decisions for publishing the texts of legal verdicts previously published on courts' websites.

Roskomnadzor's decision concerns two verdicts and two sentences. According to an announcement published on Judicial Decisions, the state censor found that the website violated laws on personal data by publishing information that made it possible “to identify the plaintiffs and defendants.”

The website's chief editor, Pavel Netupsky, told the news agency RBC that Judicial Decisions collects and publishes court verdicts automatically. In total, the site has archived nearly 8 million different rulings. Netupsky says this is the first formal warning they've received, though Roskomnadzor has in the past sent his office almost 100 letters “of unclear legal status” demanding that the website remove certain documents.

According to Russian law, two warnings issued by Roskomnadzor in the span of a year is considered legal grounds for appealing to court to have that media outlet's official registration revoked.