Russian Court Fines Google an Additional $47 Million

The visitors’ shadows next to the American multinational technology company Google's logo during the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair in Paris on June 15, 2023. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images

A Russian court has fined Alphabet’s Google 4 billion roubles ($47 million) for failing to pay an earlier fine over alleged abuse of its dominant position in the video hosting market, the country’s anti-monopoly watchdog said on Tuesday.

Google was fined 2 billion roubles in February 2022. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) at the time said Google’s YouTube had a “non-transparent, biased and unpredictable” approach to “suspending and blocking users’ accounts and content,” the TASS news agency reported.