MOSCOW, December 2 (RAPSI) – The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has set the date it will consider a Yandex motion seeking to overturn a decision refusing it to intervene in the lawsuit filed by Google against Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) over a 438 million rubles ($6.7 million) fine on December 22, the court’s records show on Friday.

Earlier, a court dismissed Yandex petition to join the lawsuit as a third party and ruled to try the case in camera. The case is to be examined on merits on December 8 by the Moscow Commercial Court.

On August 17, the Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal filed by Google against a ruling that the U.S. company had broken Russian anti-monopoly legislation by abusing its dominance on the Russian market of mobile applications.

In early August, FAS announced that it had fined Google 438 million rubles ($6.7 million) for violating administrative legislation.

On September 18, 2015, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) found Google guilty of violation the legislation.

On March 15, 2016, the Moscow Commercial Court dismissed Google’s petition requesting to abolish the FAS decision and order issued in September 2015, which stated that the company had violated the Federal Law on Protection of Competition and accusing it of abuse of dominance on the market of preinstalled applications in the Android operating system.