Russia has fined Google two undecillion rubles — an equivalent of $20 decillion — for “administrative violations”.
In figures, the numbers would amount to $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
This is well over the $109.5 trillion that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) will reach in 2024, following an estimated total of about $105.4 trillion in 2023.
The fine was in reaction to Google’s removal of Russian TV channels from YouTube to control propaganda from the Kremlin.
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Ivan Morozov, a Moscow-based lawyer, told state-run TASS on Wednesday that the fines do not have a cap and are increasing daily due to non-payment.
Morozov added that a Russian court ordered the tech giant to restore Russian media accounts on YouTube.
He said Google’s failure to do so has resulted in a fine that had been regularly doubling throughout the four-year case.
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Antonina Levashenko, head of the Center for Competence and Analysis of OECD Standards, also told TASS that Google “clearly will not pay this claim, and the Russian Federation will not be able to recover this money from the company”.
The analyst said any claims made by the Russian government are only viable domestically, while an international body would need to bring Google to account.
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