Russia fined Google an amount significantly higher than global GDP.
To continue working in Russia, Google must pay 2 undecillion rubles for removing government and pro-government accounts from YouTube.
This amount exceeds the entire world GDP, which the International Monetary Fund estimates at 110 trillion. The stock value of the entire company is 2.16 trillion.
Muscovites note in the court decision that this fine is not final. It will increase due to non-payment and, if not repaid within nine months, will begin to double every day. Russia decided that Google could return to the Russian market only when it paid 2 undecillions of rubles.
An undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. If we write it in numbers – 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Source: Racurs
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