Google fined for refusing to remove Moscow liquor stores from Maps

Google fined for refusing to remove Moscow liquor stores from Maps

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court fined Google for refusing to remove pages for Moscow liquor stores from Maps, “Verstka” noticed. The ruling was handed down in October last year, but the reason for the fine became known only now, in an appellate decision from April 2026.

According to the document, Roskomnadzor demanded that Google remove several pages in Google Maps which, according to Rosalkogolregulirovanie, contained information about the remote sale of alcohol.

This concerns, in particular, the stores Kauffman, AlkoVilla, “Alkomarket - Delivery,” and “Domashny Magazin.” Another liquor store whose link appears in the ruling has already been removed from Maps.

In addition, the regulator’s claims concerned several apps on Google Play, including the coloring game LGBT Paint by Number and dating apps for LGBT people. The court ruling also mentions links to the books “Sensei-IV. Primordial Shambhala” and “The Word of the Prophet Antichrist,” which have been designated “extremist” in Russia.

According to the agency, Google received notices requiring it to remove the specified content but failed to do so within the allotted time. The company was then charged with failing to delete information (Article 13.41 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses).

🟦“Verstka” previously found out that since June 2024, Roskomnadzor has sent Google 436 notices demanding that it remove Russian stores selling alcohol from the company’s maps, as well as reviews of them.

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