During the second half of 2023, government and court bodies from Russia made 25,925 requests to remove content items from Google products. That was the highest figure over the observed period.
Number of content removal requests from Google by government and court entities in Russia from 1st half 2016 to 2nd half 2023
In November 2017, an amendment to Russian law (276-FZ) increased 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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