Russia fines Google whopping ‘$2.5 decillion’ over YouTube bans: What led to bizarre penalty amount

A Russian court reportedly imposed a fine on Google, amounting to around $2.5 decillion, or two undecillion rubles, it refused to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets. An undecillion is one followed by 36 zeros.

As per RBC news, Google began accumulating daily penalties of 100,000 rubles in 2020 after the pro-government media outlets Tsargrad and RIA FAN won lawsuits against Google for blocking their YouTube channels. Those daily penalties have doubled each week, leading to the current overall fine of around 2 undecillion rubles, the Moscow Times reported.