Roskomnadzor threatened to block Google in Russia
The IT company is accused of non-compliance with the legislation of the country.
This story requires a little background.
Yesterday, December 11, Roskomnadzor announced that it had fined Google 500 thousand rubles. The reason is “non—fulfillment of duties by the operator of a search engine for legal entities.”
We are talking about the fact that Google has not connected to the state system, where all the sites banned in the country are listed. Connecting would mean that the Google search engine automatically blocks all resources listed in the system registry.
This procedure is mandatory for all search resources operating on the territory of the Russian Federation. According to the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (Article 13.40):
Failure by the search engine operator to fulfill the obligation to connect information resources, information and telecommunication networks to the federal state information system, access to which is restricted on the territory of the Russian Federation in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on information, information technologies and information protection, entails the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of three thousand to five thousand rubles; for officials — from thirty thousand to fifty thousand rubles; for legal entities — from five hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand rubles.
Yesterday, a representative of Roskomnadzor, Vadim Ampelonsky, also explained to Vedomosti that his ministry could fine Google permanently — “until the company connects to the registry.”
Today, on December 12, Vadim Subbotin, Deputy head of Roskomnadzor, commented more radically on Google’s failure to comply with Russian legislation. In his statement to Interfax, he threatened the company with blocking in case of systematic violation of the law.
If we reach an impasse, then at the legislative level we have every opportunity to resolve this issue. If the state sees that some foreign company does not comply with Russian legislation consistently and systematically, then the state makes changes to the law, and for non-compliance with Russian laws, a more severe punishment is possible — such as blocking.
Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor
The official explains this position by the fact that Google does not filter “extremism and terrorism.” He also notes that it will not come to such measures if the state and the company come to constructive cooperation.
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