Google deleted about 70 percent of the blacklisted sites in Russia, according to Vedomosti. The search engine has begun to tweak its search results in Russia to remove websites blacklisted by the government's communications agency.
Since 2017, the government has required search engines in the country to delete sites banned by the federal telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor. Some of those search results include sites on child pornography, drugs and suicide, but some critics have also accused the agency of pushing state censorship, according to the Moscow Times.Google was fined USD 7,500 in November 2018 for not complying with the regulation.
The Russian government has made 175 requests for the company to remove banned sites, according to the latest transparency report updated by Google in October.
