Google was fined 15.2 million rubles for not removing prohibited content in the Russian Federation

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Google a total of 15.2 million rubles for not removing content banned in Russia. This was reported on May 5 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

"Google was found guilty of late deletion of information in accordance with the requirements of Russian law," the court said in its decision.

The company was brought to administrative responsibility under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Untimely deletion of information, the dissemination of which is prohibited"). This article provides for a fine of 800,000 to 4 million rubles for legal entities. However, Google's total fine was 15.2 million rubles, which implies several episodes.

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On April 27, the Tagansky Court of Moscow fined Google a total of 19 million rubles. In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. was also found guilty of violating the same article of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. For this violation, she was fined 3.5 million rubles. Pinterest was fined the same amount.