A Russian court has registered administrative cases against Google and Wikipedia and threatened to impose heavy fines, according to the Interfax news agency. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. and Google could be fined for refusing to remove inaccurate information about the special military operation in Ukraine, as well as for encouraging extremism against Russian citizens. Inc. under Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation on the failure to remove any content prohibited in Russia. Google had two protocols filed under Parts 2 and 4 of Article 13.41 for an offense described in the code as the failure of the owner of an Internet resource to remove any information or web pages that contain calls for extremist activity. The company faces a fine of up to 12 million rubles. The hearing will be held on April 21 in the 422 magistrate court district of the Tagansky district of Moscow. Russian regulations since the beginning of last year. In December 2021, a Russian court ordered Meta to pay two billion rubles and Google to pay more than 7.2 billion rubles in revenue-based fines. Russia’s communications regulator also declared on Thursday that Google would face fines for refusing to remove video content. sharing site YouTube that Moscow considers illegal.