Russia “squeezed” Google's property in Moscow for half a billion rubles for Gazprom's closed YouTube channel

Have a YouTube channel in Russia already estimated at 500 million rubles?

Russian court has seized Google's property, located in the company's office in Moscow, worth half a billion rubles, for the fact that YouTube video hosting (owned by Google) closed one of the channels of the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom. This was reported by Forbes Russia.

It is reported that the Moscow Arbitration Court has taken precautionary measures against the property and accounts of the Russian branch of Google (LLC “Google”) in the amount of 500 million rubles According to the court ruling, Gazprom Media's “daughter” demands to declare invalid the “daughter” of GPM Entertainment Television (owned by Gazprom-Media). a ban on posting your content on YouTube, restoring full access to your channel, and charging a penalty.

Defendants are also Google Ireland Ltd, Google LLC and Google Commerce Ltd.

We will remind, earlier it also became known that the Russian court fined for 4 million rubles the company Meta banned in the Russian Federation which owns social networks Instagram and Facebook , for refusing to delete content banned in Russia. However, on March 11, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Roskomnadzor block the Instagram social network in the aggressor country, as “the network distributes publications calling for violence against Russian citizens, including servicemen.” Instagram blocking in Russia started on March 14. And Facebook in Russia was to be blocked from March 4 for “applying censorship to the Russian media.”

Based on materials: ZN.ua

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