A Russian court has sentenced the US Internet giant Google to a heavy fine totaling 7.2 billion rubles (the equivalent of 86.8 million euros).
The company had refused to delete "prohibited content", the court said on Friday in Moscow, according to the Interfax agency.
Accordingly, the amount of the fine was for the first time based on the Group's annual turnover in Russia.
Google wants to first read the judgment in detail and then advise on further steps, the company announced.
Like the IT companies Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok, Google was fined several times before.
Especially since the mass protests at the beginning of the year against the imprisonment of the Kremlin opponent Alexej Navalny, who has been in a prison camp for months, the Russian authorities have targeted social networks.
You accuse the platforms of not consistently removing calls for unauthorized demonstrations, child pornographic content or calls for suicide.
Net activists, on the other hand, repeatedly criticize the procedure as repression against the free Internet in Russia.
State Duma information policy deputy chief Anton Gorelkin said that "very unpleasant measures" would be taken if fines did not help.