In the event of non-compliance with the decision, the court imposed

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January 24, the Moscow Arbitration Court fully satisfied the claim of DublGIS LLC - it declared Google's unilateral refusal to fulfill its obligations, "expressed in the deletion of the plaintiff's account from the Google Play service," invalid, and ordered the defendants (Google LLC, Google Commerce Limited, Google LLC) to restore "the plaintiff's account on the Google Play service with all the functions that existed before the deletion, including the restoration of the 2GIS maps routes and ... application."

a penalty of 100 thousand ecuador whatsapp number database rubles "for each day of non-compliance with the judicial act, starting from the sixth day from the date of entry into legal force of the judicial act."

ComNews experts disagreed on whether Google overlooked a dangerous competitor for Google Maps and is now trying to eliminate it or is simply "fulfilling" sanctions. But precedents suggest that Google will not return the removed application, despite the court's decision.

In the meantime, 2GIS for Android is distributed via the company's website as an installation .apk file, which prevents inexperienced users from installing it on their phones. The alternative - the Russian RuStore service, where 2GIS maps are presented, does not solve the problem either, because RuStore itself is installed from an .apk file. Waiting until smartphone generations change and RuStore, pre-installed on new devices according to the law, becomes available to all users is a long time.

Google Play removed the Russian mapping service on May 20, 2023. This happened a year after the removal of Sberbank on April 6, 2022, by order of the US Treasury Department. Google justified the removal by saying that it "complies with all applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws." "If we find an app that violates our terms of service, we will take appropriate action," Google representatives said at the time. Interestingly, according to the order of the US Treasury Department, Google had to remove the apps of Sberbank and all its subsidiaries by April 13, 2022, which it did, but delayed with 2GIS. Perhaps this happened because back in April 2022, 2GIS closed access to information about the founders.

However, the lawsuit filed by 2GIS owner OOO DublGIS against OOO Google states that before deleting the app, Google Play sent users information about the maliciousness of the Russian app.

ComNews experts disagreed on whether the 2GIS account will return to Google Play "with all the functions that existed before deletion, including application restoration," as the Russian arbitration court ruled.

According to Ekaterina Abashina, a lawyer at the Digital Bar Association of Moscow "DBA and Partners", despite the fact that Google has a Russian legal entity, this will not help enforce the court's decision, because Google LLC has no relation to Google Play and is not a party to the user agreement between 2GIS and the app store.

"On the one hand, the decision of the Russian court is binding, on the other hand, there are practically no levers of pressure on the foreign company. It will be difficult to force Google to return the Russian application to the store, I don't even know how this can be done. And although a penalty is provided for each day of delay in the execution of the arbitration court decision, Google Inc. does not have any property in Russia, so everything is hanging in the air," says Ekaterina Abashina.

Igor Chuvstvinov, legal adviser of the intellectual property practice of the EBR law firm and expert of the Moscow Digital School educational platform, agrees with her. "Based on the experience of court decisions on the lawsuit of JSC Technological Company Center due to the removal of the Stoloto application from Google Play and the lawsuit of National Sports Channel LLC, which also won in court but did not restore their applications, I dare to assume that Google will not restore 2GIS. And this is despite the fact that in a dispute about what is more important - the service rules or the court decision, preference is given to the latter. Any service rules can be recognized as not complying with the law in court," the lawyer explains in a conversation with a ComNews correspondent.