A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google a total of 14 million roubles ($190,398) for violating Russian rules on banned content.
Moscow’s Tagansky District Court said Google had been handed five administrative fines of 4 million roubles, 1.5 million roubles, 5 million roubles, 1.5 million roubles, and 2 million roubles respectively.
A spokesperson for Google confirmed the first two fines to Reuters, but gave no additional comment.
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