MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - A court in Moscow has registered an administrative protocol regarding Google over the company's refusal to remove content prohibited in Russia.
"The court has received the administrative protocol in regard to Google LLC, which is due to be heard on April 20 by a magistrate of the 422th judicial district in the Tagansky district of Moscow," a court spokesperson told Interfax.
The protocol was filed by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) under part two Article 13.41 (non-removal of content banned in Russia), which carries a fine of up to four million rubles.
This is not the first time that the company and its websites are fined for failing to comply with the Russian law requirement to delete banned information. Thus, Google was fined for failing to delete from its video hosting website YouTube false information, including on the special military operation in Ukraine, calls for extremism against Russian citizens, and so on.
For repeated violations of the Russian laws, since the end of 2021 the company has twice been subjected to turnover-based fines exceeding 29 billion rubles in total. Part of the sum, 7.22 billion rubles, was recovered by the Federal Bailiffs' Service.