According to Russia’s international news agency, a Russian court today “did not open a local office” as the reason for the video conferencing software Zoom imposed 115 million rubles (currently about RMB 8636,000) fine, Zoom has not commented.
Foreign media have noted that Russia and U.S. tech companies have often clashed over content, censorship, data, and local representation, a dispute that was further exacerbated in February 2022 after the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.
RIA Novosti quoted Judge Timur Vakhrameyev as saying that the fine is equivalent to one-tenth of Zoom’s 2022 revenues in Russia.
It’s worth noting that Zoom was fined 15 million rubles last week for failing to store Russian citizens’ data on Russian soil (Currently about RMB 1.127 million), a fine that the court said Zoom had repeatedly violated.
This is in addition to other companies such as Google, Apple, and others, which have been regularly fined large sums of money in Russia over the past few years, and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms, which have also been disabled.
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