Google has reportedly racked up a fantastic of greater than two undecillion rubles (two adopted by 36 zeros) after it eliminated state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube.
Put one other method, an undecillion is a trillion occasions a trillion occasions a trillion.
The fantastic is way larger than the world’s complete GDP, estimated at $110 trillion by the Worldwide Financial Fund.
Google – which owns YouTube – has a present inventory market worth of $2.16 trillion, so in all probability will not be stumping up the money any time quickly.
It claims a decide within the case stated at a listening to on 28 October that he was contemplating “a case in which there are many, many zeros”.
Google can reportedly solely return to the Russian market if it complies with the courtroom choice.
The case was first filed privately in 2020 after the accounts of the Tsargrad TV channel and RIA FAN have been blocked as a consequence of US sanctions legal guidelines, reported RBC.
It then escalated after the beginning of the Ukraine warfare when YouTube blocked accounts belonging to the likes of Sputnik and RT and Russian authorities bought concerned.
