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Moscow court fines Wikimedia, Google, Telegram and Apple 26.3 million rubles
The Wikimedia Foundation received the largest fine, 15.2 million rubles. Meanwhile, Yandex restored access to 97% of cloud data after drone attacks.
Moscow’s Tagansky District Court fined the Wikimedia Foundation, Google, Telegram and Apple a total of 26.3 million rubles (about $318,000). The companies were accused of failing to remove content banned in Russia and of failing to comply with other requirements of Russian law.
How much each company will pay
The court imposed the largest fine, 15.2 million rubles, on the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Google and Telegram were each fined 3.8 million rubles, while Apple was fined 3.5 million rubles.
The Telegram case concerned posts that, prosecutors alleged, contained false information about the Russian Armed Forces. Apple’s hearing was held behind closed doors because the court said confidential company information could be disclosed during the proceedings. These companies and organizations had previously been fined in Russia on similar grounds.
Yandex restores nearly all cloud data
That same day, Yandex announced that it had restored customer access to 97.16% of the data on its Yandex Cloud service. Access problems affecting cloud services and the Yandex Disk platform began after drone attacks on Russian territory from October 8 to 11. The attacks damaged a data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, and three more data centers in the Kaluga and Vladimir regions.
The remaining 2.84% of the data cannot be restored because of severe equipment damage and the lack of backup copies. Customers who used Yandex Cloud’s backup services did not lose any data.
The company said that backups would now be enabled by default for new virtual machines, although users would be able to disable them. Yandex is also distributing cloud resources among independent data centers in different regions of Russia and plans to increase their number.
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