A Russian court fined social media giant Facebook 17 Million roubles (about $235,000) for failing to delete content which Moscow deems illegal.

The fines come amid a wider spat between Moscow and Google.

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Russia’s communications watchdog on Monday warned that Moscow could eventually slow down the company’s traffic in the country if it failed to delete prohibited content.

Russia has already placed a punitive slowdown on micro-blogging site Twitter for not deleting banned content, part of a push by Moscow to rein in Western tech companies and beef up what it calls its internet “sovereignty.”

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