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A Russian court on Tuesday imposed a fine of 15 million roubles ($164,000) on Alphabet-owned Google <\/a>for refusal to store Russian users\u2019 data on servers in Russia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n A magistrate at Moscow’s Tagansky district court imposed the fine on Google<\/a> after the IT company repeatedly refused to store personal data on Russian citizens in Russia.<\/p>\n Earlier, Google was fined over the same charges in August 2021 and June 2022 under a Russian law that obliges foreign companies to localise the personal data of their Russian users.<\/p>\n In August, the US tech giant was ordered to pay a 3 million rubles (about $32,800) fine for failing to delete allegedly false information about the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n In summer 2022, Google’s Russian subsidiary had filed for bankruptcy after Russian authorities seized its bank account, making it impossible to pay staff and vendors.<\/p>\n In Russia, while Twitter and Facebook are banned, access to Google’s services and its search engine and YouTube is free.<\/p>\n Earlier, Russian courts have also fined Apple and the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia.<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n Milestone Alert!<\/strong>Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world \ud83c\udf0f<\/span> Click here<\/strong><\/a> to know more.<\/p>\n