The US internet behemoth Google has been fined 1.5 million rubles ($20,370) for insufficient search engine filtering of prohibited content, Moscow’s Tagansky District Court told news agency TASS on Monday.
While it won’t break the bank for one of the world’s richest companies, it is a shot across the bow from Russian regulators. In early July, the head of Russia’s telecom and media watchdog Alexander Zharov said that filtration of content banned in Russia by the US-based search engine Google had gone down to 70 percent.
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