Content violations: Russia fines Google $370m

Alphabet's GOOGL.O Google was fined 21.1 billion roubles ($373 million) by a Russian court for a repeated failure to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, the state communications regulator Roskomnadzor said yesterday.  Russia has long objected to foreign tech platforms' distribution of content that fall foul of its restrictions, but what had been a simmering dispute has erupted into a full-on battle since Moscow assembled its armed forces before sending them into Ukraine in February. Late last year, Google was fined 7.2 billion roubles for failing to remove or block content.