MOSCOW, Mar 22The Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of the Grozny Akhmat football club against the American company Google LLC and its Russian representative office Google LLC regarding the blocking of the club's YouTube channel, team president Magomed Daudov said on his page on the social network VKontakte.USA in December 2020, they imposed sanctions against the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, created on the initiative of Ramzan Kadyrov, as well as against companies and sports clubs associated with it, including Akhmat. In mid-January 2021, Akhmat's YouTube channel was blocked. The Grozny club applied to the arbitration court with a demand to remove the blocking from the YouTube channel «Akhmata» and with a statement to the FAS Russia in connection with the presence in Google's actions of signs of abuse of a dominant position in the social network video hosting market. «On March 21, 2022, the claim was fully satisfied, the court In addition, taking into account the practice of foreign companies that immediately stop or suspend their activities in Russia, citing complex international relations and economic sanctions against Russia, the court turned the decision to immediate execution, establishing a court penalty for failure to comply with a court order. Such a penalty is subject to accrual from the third day of non-execution of a judicial act after the publication of a reasoned decision. Judicial penalty (astrent) is an essential part of the requirements, since it is precisely this that can guarantee the actual execution of a judicial act,» Daudov wrote. l a penalty for non-execution of the decision in the amount of 100 thousand rubles for each day of non-performance, and this amount will double every week until reaching the amount of 1 billion rubles. From the moment the amount of 1 billion rubles is accrued, the increase in the amount of astreint will be suspended until the end of the ninth month of Google inactivity, after which, in case of non-execution of the court decision, it will again continue to accrue progressively, but without a limit,» Daudov added.
