If Google does not begin to exclude banned sites from search results, the law may be amended to block the search engine, said Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of Roskomnadzor.

Quote: “The current law now does not imply blocking, it implies an administrative fine. But you understand that if we reach a dead end, then at the legislative level we have every opportunity to resolve this issue. If the state sees that some foreign company does not comply with Russian legislation consistently and systematically, then the state makes changes to the law, and a more severe punishment is possible for non-compliance with Russian laws, such as blocking, ”Subbotin said.

Context. The day before, Roskomnadzor for the first time fined Google 500 thousand rubles for refusing to connect to the register of banned sites.

The fine is provided for non-compliance with the law on the prohibition of bypassing blocking through anonymizers and VPN. 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.
According to The Bell , at a meeting with the Internet community, the first deputy chief of staff, President Sergei Kiriyenko, said in November that foreign companies are required to comply with Russian law.

Liana Faizova

Roskomnadzor threatened to block Google