Only recently Russia imposed a fine on Google, now there are new allegations – and a new fine for the US company.
A Moscow court has fined Google for not storing the data of Russian users on servers in the country.
The US group must therefore pay three million rubles (just under 35,000 euros), the judge decided on Thursday. It is the first time that the Russian judiciary has penalized Google for this. In connection with the same allegation, the career network LinkedIn has been completely blocked in Russia since 2016.
Russia had recently imposed fines of around ten million rubles (115,000 euros) on Google for refusing to delete unwanted content. Other foreign IT giants such as Facebook and Tiktok were also fined. Twitter was also slowed down for weeks in Russia.
The short message service was accused, among other things, of not having consistently deleted calls for demonstrations for the imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny at the beginning of the year. Critics saw it as an attempt to restrict the right to freedom of expression in social networks. Thousands of Internet sites have already been blocked in Russia, including those of government opponents.
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