A Moscow court docket on Thursday once more fined Google for failing to take away banned content material as international tech giants face mounting stress in Russia.

In latest months, Russia has been taking authorized motion towards international tech firms for not deleting content material banned by the authorities, together with pornographic materials or posts deemed extremist or condoning medicine or suicide.

On Thursday, the Tagansky district court docket slapped Google with three fines totalling RUB 6 million (roughly Rs. 60 lakhs) for the violation, in accordance with the official Telegram channel of Moscow courts.

Earlier this week, the US firm was hit with 5 different fines totalling RUB 14 million (roughly Rs. 1.4 crores) over the identical costs.

Last month Google was fined RUB 3 million (roughly Rs. 30 lakhs) for breaching knowledge storage legal guidelines.

According to the RIA Novosti information company, Google has to this point been fined RUB 32.5 million (roughly Rs. 3.2 crores) in Russia.

It was the primary time the corporate was penalised underneath the controversial regulation that requires the private knowledge of Russian customers to be saved on servers inside Russia.

Moscow has lately ramped up stress on international tech firms, particularly social networks, after accusing them early this yr of not eradicating posts calling for minors to affix protests in help of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Facebook has been handed fines for failing to take away unlawful content material, whereas Twitter has had its service speeds in Russia throttled.

In latest years, the Russian authorities has additionally been tightening management over the Internet underneath the pretext of preventing extremism and defending minors.

But authorities critics have denounced official oversight of the net as a way to stifle debate and silence dissent.