The accounts of the Russian “daughter” of Google were frozen for 1 billion rubles due to the blocking of the YouTube channels “Moscow 24” and “Moscow Trust”

Russian subsidiary The Moscow Arbitration Court arrested the property and accounts of Google's for one billion rubles based on two applications from the Moscow Media joint-stock company. attention to this . drew Interfax

“Moscow Media” in its lawsuits asked the court to oblige the defendants to restore access to the YouTube channels “Moscow 24” and “Moscow Trust”, as well as to all videos published on them.

Bailiffs previously blocked the accounts of the Russian Google in order to recover a billion rubles in penalties from it in a lawsuit filed by the Tsargrad channel for blocking a YouTube channel. Two months later, the Google representative office announced bankruptcy, since the arrest of the account made it impossible to operate the office in Russia and pay salaries to employees.

In March, amid the war in Ukraine, YouTube announced “immediate blocking” worldwide of accounts associated with Russian state media. After this, ten media outlets approached the company with claims for the restoration of YouTube channels. The court granted applications for the seizure of property and accounts of Russian Google based on statements from the TV channels Zvezda, NTV, TNT, 360 and RT for a total amount of 3.5 billion rubles.

In addition, the FSPP reported on May 26 that it had collected from Google a negotiable fine of 7.2 billion rubles, imposed on it due to the failure to remove from YouTube . 2.4 thousand videos “dangerous to Russian citizens”