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Russia has fined Google more than all the world’s money

That’s $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

$20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That’s how much a Russian court has fined Google for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. That’s two undecillion roubles - and far greater than the world’s total GDP, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be $110 trillion.

Jen Monaghan, from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Monitoring, talks us through why Google has been hit with such a massive fine, and how it’s impossible to pay. And the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Anastasia Golubeva shares how the internet and social media apps - including YouTube - are restricted in Russia, and the impact this has on young people there.

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