INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of
pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings
pro-government media outlets Tsargrad and RIA FAN won lawsuits against the company for blocking their YouTube channels
Those daily penalties have doubled each week, leading to the current overall fine of around 2 undecillion rubles.Undecillion is a number
Among them are the state-run Channel One, the military-affiliated Zvezda broadcaster and a company representing RT editor-in-chief Margarita
Simonyan.YouTube, which is owned by Google, blocked several Russian state-run media outlets over their support of the full-scale invasion of
the summer of 2022 and was officially declaredbankrupt last fall
