Telegram, Google and Akamai Technologies are accused

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Moscow's Tagansky Court has registered protocols against Google, Telegram, and the American IT company Akamai Technologies, drawn up by Roskomnadzor for refusing to remove information prohibited in the Russian Federation.

"The consideration of administrative materials regarding Akamai Technologies and Telegram Messenger Inc. is scheduled for November 21, and regarding Google LLC - for November 14," court press secretary Zulfiya Gurincuk told Interfax.

According to the court, RKN's argentina whatsapp resource claims against foreign resources are related to their refusal to remove information banned in the Russian Federation. In particular, this concerns unreliable information about a special operation in Ukraine.

of failing to take measures to remove information prohibited in Russia (Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). If their guilt is proven, each of the companies faces a fine of up to 4 million rubles.

Akamai Technologies is a Massachusetts-based IT company that provides website services, content and application delivery platforms, and cybersecurity services. The organization is being held administratively liable in Russia for failure to comply with the law for the first time.

Over the past few years, the largest Internet services — Google, Telegram, Facebook (an information resource of an organization banned in the Russian Federation), Twitter, TikTok, Wikimedia Foundation, Twitch — have been repeatedly held accountable in Russia for failing to remove prohibited content. Russian courts have imposed multimillion-dollar fines on the companies, some of which have already been collected.

Also, for repeated violations of Russian legislation, Meta (recognized in the Russian Federation as an extremist organization and banned) and Google were subject to turnover fines in the Russian Federation. The court collected almost 2 billion rubles from Meta, and more than 28.9 billion rubles from Google in turnover fines.