Russian federal telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor has sent a warning to Google, asking the company to remove content which violates Russian legal requirements, reports Tass. The content should be removed within a day, otherwise traffic will be slowed.
The watchdog said Google's content filtering is insufficient and that 20-30 percent of links to the illegal content have not yet been removed.
A Russian court has fined Google and Facebook over its failure to delete content that Moscow deems illegal, the latest development in an escalating standoff between Russia and Big Tech.
Russia has already placed a punitive slowdown on Twitter for not deleting banned content, part of a push by Moscow to rein in Western tech companies and beef up what it calls its internet "sovereignty."
Facebook was fined RUB 26 million in total, on eight separate counts, while Alphabet Inc's Google was ordered to pay a total of RUB 6 million for three different offences, Moscow's Tagansky District Court said, reports Reuters.
Both companies were guilty of administrative offences, the court said in separate statements.
