Russia imposes a $34.9 million fine on Google

• Companies Russia finds Apple guilty of violating antitrust laws

's Federal Antimonopoly Service (SFA)

has imposed a $

.

for abuse of dominant position in the services market of the

video platform .

Google LLC.

will have to pay the fine within two months, according to a statement from the SFA.

Google 's

, the regulator added, lead to "sudden bans and deletion of

user

"

established that such conduct violates the interests of users and also restricts competition in related markets," said SFA.

The

was the result of a lawsuit filed by the Public Center for Internet Technology, a

-governmental organization that groups Internet users.

This month,

already asked the antitrust regulator to open a file against the

for blocking Russian users, with the consequent economic damage to them.

It also sanctions Snapchat

The

has also imposed a fine of 16,000 dollars on the American social network

for failing to comply with local data storage legislation.

The company was sanctioned for

that requires the storage of

of Russian citizens on the territory of this country.

The social network

was blocked in Russia in 2016 for

on data collection and storage and has been

ever since .

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