Roskomnadzor fined Google 500 thousand rubles

Google was fined 500 thousand rubles for non-compliance with Russian legislation, said the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov.

More. Thus, the company was punished for refusing to connect to the registry of banned sites. There are collected sites that need to be excluded from search results.

• Zharov noted that if the company fails to comply with Russian legislation, another administrative case may be initiated against it.

Context. On November 1, 2017, the law prohibiting bypassing blocking through anonymizers and VPNs came into force. It obliges providers, owners of anonymizers and search engines to connect to the federal state information system (FSIS), which contains information about blocked sites. Search engines are required to exclude links to them from their search results.

• In the summer of 2018, Vladimir Putin signed a law on fines for violating the requirements to bypass blocking. Roskomnadzor for the first time fined the search engine under the new law.
• At a meeting with the Internet community, Sergei Kiriyenko said that foreign companies are required to comply with Russian law. As The Bell found out, in this context, he suggested that a Facebook representative present at the business breakfast open a representative office in Russia.