As The Register points out, this is a ludicrous amount of money. It's about 200 trillion times the current estimated amount of "liquid" monetary value, in all currencies from all countries, currently in circulation on the planet.
According to a machine translation of the original news story on RBC.ru, Google's Russian subsidiary has been effectively bankrupt since 2022. While several billion rubles have been paid in fines for similar actions, Google's assets in Russia are already so far in the red that getting anything meaningfully valuable out of the company is near impossible.
The fine starts as 100,000 rubles for each day that Google keeps said channels restricted, and doubles for every week of non-compliance. There is no upper limit on the fine, and even an elementary school student could see how this quickly gets out of hand.
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