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Russian court slaps Google, Meta with massive fines

A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants.

Fears mount over Russian Christmas invasion of Ukraine

Independent Women's Forum Foreign Policy Fellow Claudia Rosett says Russian President Vladimir Putin 'would like to reassemble the old Soviet Empire' as 'his own empirical dictatorship' and Ukraine was the second most important part of that empire.