Russia 'fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000' - more than all the money in the world

Google has been fined a staggering 20 decillion dollars by a Russian tribunal - much than each nan money successful nan world, according to reports.

The tech elephantine is facing claims from 17 Russian TV channels aft banning their accounts connected YouTube, which it owns, as a consequence of world sanctions.

Pro-Kremlin channels progressive successful nan lawsuit reportedly see Russia 1 and nan level belonging to Russia Today presenter and Putin mouthpiece Margarita Simonyan.

A Moscow judge described nan ineligible conflict arsenic 'a lawsuit successful which location are many, galore zeros', according to news outlet RBC.

The broadcaster reports that nan magnitude of nan good has doubled each week since 2020, and is now up to nan balanced of $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. 

Google's precocious released interim study for nan 3rd 4th shows its full gross is 88.2 cardinal dollars - a agelong measurement disconnected moreover reasoning astir paying nan extortionate sum. The punishment besides eclipses Google's $2-trillion marketplace worth by a agelong chalk. 

Meanwhile nan World Bank estimates nan size of nan world system to beryllium astir 100 trillion dollars, aliases 100 followed by 12 zeros. 

That fig is astatine slightest 20 zeros excessively small to scope nan astronomical Russian fine.

Google closed down its Russian section successful 2022 pursuing Vladimir Putin's forbidden penetration of Ukraine.

Its Russian subsidiary, Google LLC, declared bankruptcy, but galore of its services including its hunt motor and YouTube person remained accessible to Russians.

While nan Kremlin has banned immoderate platforms including Twitter and Facebook, it has truthful acold stopped short of blocking entree to Google's services. 

Google has continued to look unit however for some failing to delete contented Moscow deems forbidden and restricting entree to immoderate Russian media connected YouTube. 

The video streaming tract has banned a number of pro-Moscow pages, including propaganda transmission Tsargrad TV, owned by oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, 4 years ago.

Google was fined a regular punishment of 100,000 rubles and warned that magnitude would double each 24 hours if it was not paid.

In Russian currency, nan good now amounts to much than 2 undecillion rubles, a 36-digit figure, lawyer Ivan Morozov told nan state-owned TASS news agency.

Despite nan dizzying sums being demanded by judges successful Moscow, Google has remained defiant.

The institution said successful its past net statement: 'We do not judge these ongoing ineligible matters will person a worldly adverse effect.'