The tension between Russia and Ukraine has been highly destructive for the Russian economy. The country, which severed its trade activities with almost the entire world, lost numerous foreign investors from various sectors, including Apple, Samsung, Google, and Volkswagen. However, it seems that this devastating conflict has not impacted Russia’s relationship with its major tech companies as much as anticipated.

Fines imposed on Google, YouTube, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), and TikTok by Russian courts have been erased from the state enforcement officers’ database. Consequently, these companies no longer appear as debtors in Russia. Here are the details…

Debts of Google, Meta and Tiktok Removed from Russian Database!

The fines imposed by Russian courts on Google, YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and Telegram seem to have been resolved as these companies are no longer listed as debtors in the government enforcement officers’ database. Interestingly, despite this development, data accessed by Reuters on Wednesday still shows X (formerly known as Twitter) and Twitch with fines of 51 million rubles ($560,730) and 23 million rubles ($252,879), respectively.

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Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, conflicts intensified with foreign tech companies on various issues, primarily related to the illegal content and non-local storage of user data, resulting in eventual fines. Post-invasion, Twitter and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram were blocked, while Google’s YouTube faced numerous legal challenges. In late 2023, a Russian court had imposed a fine of 4.6 billion rubles ($50.4 million), calculated as a portion of Google’s annual revenue in Russia.

Meta, labeled “extremist” in 2022, also faced fines proportionate to its income in Russia. As of today, according to the identified database, these companies do not have any debts to Russia.

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