Bailiffs came to Google because of a project by Navalny supporters

The bailiffs linked the visit to the Moscow office of Google on September 13 with the court decision on the project of supporters of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, designed to influence the elections to the State Duma.

As was told Interfax by the Federal Bailiffs Service, “enforcement measures provided for by the current legislation of the Russian Federation” are being taken as part of the proceedings, which were opened on September 7. We are talking about a court ban on the issuance of the phrase "smart voting" in the Google search engine.

The bailiffs came to the Google office in the Baltschug Plaza business center the night before, wrote Mash . The total amount of company fines in Russia exceeds 32 million rubles.

• The Moscow Arbitration Court banned Google and Yandex from showing the phrase "smart voting" in search results on September 3. The decision became an interim measure in a lawsuit by the company selling sheep wool, Vulintertrade, which registered the phrase as its own trademark. As found out , Vulintertrade is indirectly connected with the security forces. the BBC
• Last week, Roskomnadzor blocked the website of "Smart Voting" due to links with "extremist organizations." Yandex removed links to the site and its "mirrors" from search results after they were included in the register of prohibited information.