The conflict situation threatens to slow down the entire Russian Internet.
On Friday, December 24, Moscow's Tagansky Court for the first time imposed turnover fines on foreign IT corporations in Russia – Google and Meta (formerly Facebook).
This was reported by Kommersant, citing a court decision.
Meta was fined 1.9 billion rubles (about 25.5 million dollars) for repeated failure to delete information prohibited in Russia.
The court imposed an even greater fine on Google, also for refusing to delete information. The company was imposed a turnover fine of 7.2 billion rubles (approximately $ 93.5 million).
The amount of the turnover fine can range from 1/20 to 1/10 of the company's annual turnover in Russia, in the case of Google did not name the share of the turnover.
“We will study the court decision and then determine the next steps,” the press service of Google said in this regard.
According to experts, the result the development of the conflict may be an attempt to slow down Google traffic in Russia, and this may lead to a slowdown of the entire Russian Internet and problems with Android devices.
Recall that the previously well-known Russian blogger and interviewer Yuri Dudya was sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles in the case of drug propaganda.
