During the second half of 2024, government and court bodies from Russia made 22,242 requests to remove content items from Google products. The highest figure over the observed period was recorded in the second half of 2023.
Number of content removal requests from Google by government and court entities in Russia from 1st half 2016 to 2nd half 2024
In November 2017, an amendment to Russian law (276-FZ) increased the government’s scope for requesting URLs containing material banned in Russia to be removed from Google's online services, including Google Search.
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