This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the 422nd judicial district of the Tagansky district of Moscow.

"The protocol under Part 2 of Article 13.49 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation in relation to Amazon Web Services, Inc. will be considered on January 17," the court said.

Protocols for Bluehost, Kamatera Inc, Hetnez Online Gmb, Ionos Inc, Network Solution, Digitalocean Llc, Dreamhost Llc, Godaddy.com, Wpengine Inc and Hostgator.com will also be reviewed.

Companies face turnover fines of up to one-tenth of their income per calendar year for operating in Russia without a representative office.

In October, Roskomnadzor announced that Amazon Web Services sites and ten other foreign hosting providers would not appear in search results.