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Russian TV channels suing Google for $20 decillion dollars: what’s the beef about?17 Russian television channels’ compensatory demands toward Google have reached 2 undecillian rubles (2 followed by 36 zeros), or 20 decillion dollars ($20,560,840,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to be exact).How did it come to such a sum?The channels’ beef with the tech giant relates to the blocking of their YouTube accounts, with the case affecting major federal channels and smaller media alike.
A court previously ordered Google to restore channels, ruling that if this is not done in a nine-month period, a fine of 100,000 rubles would be slapped on the company daily, and double every week until Google complied, with no limit on the total fine.
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Russian media vs. GoogleRussian media first started a series of legal battles with Google in 2020, after YouTube blocked the accounts of Tsargrad TV over alleged “sanctions legislation and trade rules”-related violations. Tsargrad took Google to court, with a judge ordering the company to unblock the account or face escalating fines.In 2022 and the start of the conflict in Ukraine, YouTube blocked Sputnik, RT, NTV and Rossiya 24’s accounts, followed by others, prompting Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service to slap Google with 4 billion ruble in fines.In June of 2022, Google’s Russia-based entity filed for bankruptcy, citing debts in excess of 19 billion rubles and assets of only 3.5 billion rubles.
The affected Russian media channels have also taken Google to court in other countries to enforce Russian court decisions. In June 2024, the High Court of South Africa granted a Russian request to seize Google’s assets in that country. Google shot back in August with lawsuits in US and British courts against Russian media to try to block them from initiating further legal proceedings outside Russia.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the issue on Thursday, suggesting that the 2 undecillian sum is “filled with symbolism,” and “demonstrate the essence of the claim of our channels to Google.”
 
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