FSSP: bailiffs came to the Moscow office of Google to achieve the exclusion of “Smart Voting” from search results

Yesterday, bailiffs came to the Google office in the Moscow business center “Balchug Plaza” to achieve the exclusion of politician Alexei Navalny’s project “Smart Voting” from search results. about this . Representatives of the service told Interfax

The bailiffs sought to enforce the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court: in September, it prohibited Google and Yandex from displaying the phrase “Smart Voting” as an interim measure in a lawsuit filed by a Stavropol company selling sheep wool. in June . The company registered the trademark “Smart Voting”

telegram channel The Mash published a video of the bailiffs’ visit to the business center. The receptionist in front of them called the company’s lawyer, who said over the speakerphone that “if this (the claims of the bailiffs - MZ) concerns the company Google LLC , then this company is located in the USA.”

Yandex, in turn, removed links to Navalny’s Smart Voting from search results after the site was included in the register of banned sites in September. Roskomnadzor also demanded that Apple, Google, Cloudflare and Cisco , which use the politician’s application, not provide him with the ability to bypass blocking in Russia. Otherwise, the department promised to consider the companies’ actions as “foreign interference.”