- February 20, 2015
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Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service initiated proceedings against the American corporation Google for requests from “Yandex”. Russia’s largest Internet company appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service with a request to Google to check for violations of IT-giant Russian antimonopoly legislation.
” We are excited and, of course, raises many cases against different companies. That’s the last thing that we just filed today against the company Google, for example, a very famous company, “- said on Friday the head of the State Duma Igor Artemyev.
Representatives of “Yandex” stated earlier that also involved in the investigation by the European Commission of the situation with the dominance of Google’s operating system Android, which is currently being worked out by Google.
In the Russian companies believe that Google prohibits pre-install the application and services of other Internet companies in the devices operating on the basis of its mobile operating system.
“We believe that the producers should have a choice – a search will default on their smartphones and tablets, and generally what services preinstall them, “- said the representative of” Yandex “Ochir Mandzhikov.
We examined two days?
The press service of FAS reported bbcrussian.com, that open a case against Google on Friday, although the statement of 18 February stated that the period of the application from the “Yandex” will take up to one month.
In the Russian office of Google BBC Russian Service said earlier, that the owners of Android devices are free to choose which services and applications they use.
Meanwhile, as noted in the “Yandex” in the past year, Google has restricted the preset service of the Russian company on mobile devices from manufacturers such as Fly, Explay and Prestigio.
In December 2014 the head of “Yandex” Arkady Volozh said the company has no plans to apply to the FAS with a complaint against Google.
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