A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion rubles, an astronomical sum, because the company refused to restore access to the accounts of several Russian TV channels on the YouTube platform. An undecillion is a unit with 36 zeros.
The Russian side resorted to such measures after Google blocked the accounts of channels, including Zvezda, Channel One, VGTRK (Russia-1, Russia-24, and others), NTV, Public Television of Russia, as well as the channel of RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.
The court decision includes a mechanism for daily increasing the penalty if the company does not comply with the order within nine months after the decision comes into force. For each day of delay, the fine increases by 100,000 rubles, and each week of delay doubles the amount, without limiting the total amount of the fine.
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