According to the bankruptcy trustee of LLC “Google”, Valery Talyarovsky, by September 20, 2026, more than 16.7 billion rubles had been credited to the Russian legal entity’s settlement account. The Federal Bailiff Service wrote off 14.7 billion rubles from this amount under writs of execution for the collection of administrative fines imposed on Google LLC.
Bailiffs also recovered more than 2.1 billion rubles from debtors of the Russian LLC “Google” and also directed them toward paying off the fines of the American company. The Insider calculated on the basis of these data that, in total, almost 16.8 billion rubles went to fines, that is, almost 80% of all the money that came into the Russian company’s accounts during the bankruptcy process.
In total, during the bankruptcy proceedings, more than 18.8 billion rubles entered the bankruptcy estate of LLC “Google”. Part of the funds was directed to tax obligations and debts to former employees, and more than 404 million rubles went to employee wages.
At the same time, claims totaling more than 23.5 billion rubles have been included in the register of creditors’ claims. Google in Russia has been fined repeatedly for refusing to remove information that the Russian authorities consider prohibited: in December 2021, the court imposed a turnover-based fine of 7.2 billion rubles on the company, in July 2022 — another 21.7 billion rubles, including for failing to remove information about the war against Ukraine from YouTube, and in December 2023 — another turnover-based fine of 4.6 billion rubles.
Google’s Russian subsidiary filed for bankruptcy in June 2022 after its bank accounts were seized, and in October 2023 the company was declared bankrupt. Alphabet’s third-quarter 2026 report, published on October 28, says that legal proceedings in Russia are ongoing, including over account blocks, including the accounts of sanctioned individuals; the corporation does not expect these disputes to have a significant negative impact on its business.
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