Google will have to recognize the Russian Crimea and allow access to local users of Android smartphones to store offers Google Play. About this report “Izvestia” with reference to the Federal Antimonopoly service (FAS), which concluded with the Corporation a settlement agreement. The same proceedings may force Apple to lift the sanctions against the Crimea.
Under the agreement, Google must give users of the Android operating system a choice of search engines in the entire territory of Russia, including in Crimea.
“The settlement agreement is valid throughout the territory of the Russian Federation for users who use the Android preinstalled app store and Google search,” — said the FAS. Failing this paragraph, the Corporation faces a trial.
According to the Director on the project activities of the Institute for the development of the Internet Arseniy Salicina, Google is now obliged to recognize the Russian Crimea and to allow the residents to select a search engine.
We will remind that from-for sanctions of the USA the American company terminated the services of the services on the Crimean Peninsula.
Google has closed access to the online Google Play store for residents of the Crimea at the end of January 2015. 30 January, Apple blocked for the residents of the Crimea access to the App Store. An embargo implies not only a ban on the supply in Crimea American goods, including iPhone and Mac, but the ban on Crimean residents to Internet services and widespread programs and applications – even if they are free.
