The Moscow Arbitration Court has ordered Google to restore viewing access to nine Ren TV YouTube channels.
Kommersant reports that failure to comply with the court’s decision will result in Google being fined R100,000 (€1,269) a day, with the amount growing each week but not exceeding R1 billion. It adds that the court has also decided to recover R12,000 in state duty from Google.
The plaintiff in the case was Accept (Ren TV) and Google has one month to appeal the decision.
YouTube has blocked a number of Russian media outlets over the last 12 months in response to their coverage of the war in Ukraine.
In one case it was fined R1 billion last November for refusing to show NTV, one of Russia’s leading broadcasters.
