The court refused to consider a claim against Google for the return of “forgotten” links

The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to consider the lawsuit filed by the public organization Roskomsvoboda against Google demanding that links removed under the “right to be forgotten” law be returned to search results. The reason was that the plaintiff did not first try to negotiate with the search engine directly.

On August 23, Roskomsvoboda lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of the information and analytical center Sova, which fights xenophobia. In March 2016, Google notified Sova that two links to this site had been removed from search results under the "right to be forgotten" law. These pages contain messages about trials in cases of inciting ethnic hatred or enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

As stated in the SOVA center, the removal of links limits his right to freedom of information dissemination, guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

• The law on the “right to be forgotten” has been in force in Russia since January 1, 2016. It obliges search engines, at the request of a citizen, to remove from the search results links to illegal, inaccurate or irrelevant information about the applicant. At the same time, search engines themselves evaluate the reliability and relevance of information.
• The maximum fine for refusing to delete information is one million rubles.
• The “right to be forgotten” in Russia has already been used by businessman Sergei Mikhailov, nicknamed Mikhas , whom the media associated with criminal groups. In addition, billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin , close to Vladimir Putin, demanded to remove links with articles about himself (he later withdrew the lawsuit). "The right to be forgotten" was also achieved by the writer and now a candidate for the State Duma, Eduard Bagirov. from Yandex . disappeared At his request, the link to the article about him in Lurkomorye