The court-fined amount of 2 undecillion rubles, approximately $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, is beyond any entity's capacity to pay.
Following the penalties, Google has blocked over 1,000 YouTube channels and 5.5 million videos since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Google faces daily penalties of 100,000 rubles, which have doubled each week since 2020 after pro-government outlets won lawsuits against it.
17 Russian TV channels, including major state-run networks, have filed legal claims against Google for blocking their channels on YouTube.
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