The measures will apply to Google Search, the Google Play app store, YouTube, YouTube Music, Google Chat and Gmail.
Roskomnadzor accused Google’s video-sharing platform YouTube, which has shut out Russian state-sponsored media worldwide, of becoming “one of the main platforms for spreading fakes about the unfolding of special military operation (of Russia) on the territory of Ukraine, discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation”.
He said the measures taken against Google, owned by Alphabet Inc, which include a search engine warning that it violates Russian law, would remain in place until it complies with the law. .
The deputy head of the State Duma parliamentary committee on information policy, Anton Gorelkin, wrote on Telegram that the Russian search engine Yandex will add a warning to Google services.
Google spent 243 million rubles ($3.2 million) on advertising in Russia in 2021, excluding VAT, according to a Kommersant newspaper report citing industry publication AdIndex.
Google, which stopped selling online advertising in Russia on March 3, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Last month, Russia demanded that Google stop broadcasting what it calls threats against Russian citizens on YouTube.
The regulator also blocked Google’s news aggregation service in March, accusing it of providing access to false documents about the military operation in Ukraine.
The Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, last month passed a law providing for up to 15 years in prison for intentionally spreading “fake” news that disagrees with government accounts of the military.
The desire to control information about his campaign in Ukraine has heightened long-running tensions between Moscow and foreign tech companies.
In addition to Meta Platforms allowing social media users in Ukraine to post messages such as “Death to Russian invaders”, Moscow blocked Instagram in March, having already cut off Facebook access over what it considered to be attacks. platform restrictions on Russian media.
Russia sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine on February 24 in what it called a special operation aimed at degrading its southern neighbor’s military capabilities and eradicating people it calls dangerous nationalists.
Ukrainian forces put up fierce resistance and the West imposed sweeping sanctions in an attempt to force Russia to withdraw its forces. ($1 = 76.6650 rubles)