Moscow’s Tagansky District Court issued its rulings in cases brought against Google, Telegram and Microsoft for allegedly failing to meet their obligations regarding banned content in Russia.
The court found that the platforms’ failure to remove banned content violated the law. Under the rulings, Google and Telegram were each fined 3.8 million rubles, while Microsoft was fined 3.5 million rubles.
Apple, TikTok and other foreign internet platforms have previously also been fined in Russia for failing to remove banned content and meet their legal obligations in the country.
Google’s total turnover-based fines since the end of 2021 have exceeded 29 billion rubles. The company’s enforcement debt in Russia also stands at more than 20 billion rubles.
Restrictions on Telegram’s operations in Russia remain in place, while fines imposed on the platform by Moscow courts in the first six months of this year have exceeded 100 million rubles.