Moscow court fines Google 7.6 million rubles

The American company was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for restricting access to information, access to which is subject to restrictions in accordance with Russian legislation). It is not specified what the reason for the fines was.

Another hearing is scheduled for December 17 in the Tagansky Court, in which Google could receive a fine of up to 4 million rubles under the same administrative article, as follows from the file published on the court website of general jurisdiction of Moscow.

In addition, in early November, RIA Novosti reported that the Tagansky district magistrate registered a protocol against Google under article 19.7.10-4 of the Administrative Code (non-compliance by the owner of the social network with the instructions of the authority federal executive body). In this case, the company faces a fine of up to 6 million rubles.

These are not the first fines that Google has received in Russia. At the end of October, an RBC source reported that the amount of claims against the company by 17 Russian television channels blocked on YouTube reached 2 undecillion rubles (the figure contains 36 zeros). Previously, the court ordered Google to restore the channel’s accounts. For each day of non-compliance with the requirement, Google pays a fine of 100 thousand rubles, which doubles weekly without restrictions on the total amount.

YouTube’s work in Russia has slowed down since the end of July. Roskomnadzor explained the failures in the video hosting service due to problems with Google servers, but the company assured that they had nothing to do with the problems.