The icon for Google Play Store application is displayed on a phone. (Photo: Justin Chin/Bloomberg) Russia has been at loggerheads with foreign technology companies over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dispute that intensified after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Russia calls the conflict in Ukraine a "special military operation".
Alphabet's YouTube has been a particular target of the Russian state's ire but, unlike Twitter and Meta Platforms' META.O Facebook and Instagram, it has not been blocked. The fine was calculated as a share of Google's annual turnover in Russia. The company was handed similar turnover-based penalties of 7.2 billion roubles in late 2021 and 21.1 billion roubles in August 2022.
($1 = 90.4825 roubles)
(Reporting by Reuters in Moscow, Alexander Marrow; additional reporting by Filipp Lebedev; editing by Andrew Heavens and Jason Neely)
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