According to the complaint of the company "Yandex", the Federal Antimonopoly service of Russia (FAS) has ruled the Internet giant Google violator of antitrust laws. The company faces a large fine in the amount of 1-15% of the turnover on the Russian market, pass "news". And all due to the fact that Google is abusing its dominant position in the market of Android-devices, which delivers the operating system.

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According to the complaint of the company "Yandex", the Federal Antimonopoly service of Russia (FAS) has ruled the Internet giant Google violator of antitrust laws. The company faces a large fine in the amount of 1-15% of the turnover on the Russian market, pass "news". And all due to the fact that Google is abusing its dominant position in the market of Android-devices, which delivers the operating system.

the Russian company "Yandex" did not like that Google, allowing manufacturers to install its own app store, they were obligated to set the search priority on the device. And on the first screen of smartphones in preferential order, it was necessary to publish an app to Google. In particular, Fly, Explay and Prestigio because of this, refused the services of "Yandex" in their devices. FAS saw it as abuse and soon will send the order to its removal. Even if the Internet giant will follow the order, this does not relieve him from paying fine is 1-15% of the turnover on the Russian market.

since the violations concerned the app store, then the penalty shall be subjected to Google Inc. and Google Ireland, receiving payments from Russian users. Experts differ in estimates of the amount of the penalty — from 9.8 to 10.5 million.