Google office. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 17The multibillion-dollar turnover fines imposed by the Russian court on Google and Meta amounted to 5% of their annual income, according to the court’s calculation, this is 144 and 39 billion rubles, respectively, follows from the published texts of the decisions .According to the calculations of the court, Google earned 144.4 billion rubles a year, and Meta 39.8 billion. At the same time, the decisions do not indicate for which year the indicators are given. In both rulings, the court came to the conclusion that it is necessary to fine companies by 1/20 of their total income. In December, a turnover fine was imposed on an IT company in Russia for the first time: the court exacted 7.2 billion rubles from Google for repeated failure to remove prohibited information. A few hours later, a negotiable fine for similar violations — almost 2 billion rubles — was received by Meta.
