MOSCOW, August 19 (RAPSI) – Google LLC was fined 6 million rubles ($80,000) on Wednesday for refusal to remove prohibited content, RAPSI was told in Moscow’s Tagansky District Court.
On Tuesday, the company received a fine of 14 million rubles (about $200,000) for similar violations.
The company has been found guilty of failure to delete information or Internet page when obliged by Russian law.
According to Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Google was earlier notified of its obligation to remove banned information, however the company failed to restrict access to it within 24 hours and became subject to fines.