A Russian court has fined Alphabet Inc, the company behind Google, over 4 billion roubles ($47 million) for failing to pay an earlier fine, Russia’s anti-monopoly watchdog said on Tuesday.

The previous fine of over 2 billion roubles was for blocking some YouTube channels. In November 2022, an arbitration court in Moscow upheld a 2-billion rouble ($33 million) fine against Google issued by Russia's federal anti-monopoly service over the company's decision to block some YouTube channels, the RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing a court decision.

In the string of fines for the U.S. tech giant, earlier, in February 2022, a Moscow court fined Alphabet’s Google 3.5 million roubles ($46,000) for failing to delete content Russia deems illegal.

($1 = 85.0250 roubles)