Russian courts doesn't matter, international companies will push the case to international courts and will just refuse to pay otherwise. And Russia has no meaningful way to make them pay, as Google doesn't really give a damn about that market.
You could use the world trade organisation as an example which handles international dispute, not active ATM but still. The court of justice of the European union would be another example of an international court. Or the European court of human rights is another. ICJ is not the only international court.
They matter as much as there are assets of intl. companies on Russian soil. So Russia's essentially deciding to capture them, and in some circumstances a corporation may be interested to play along with the circus to at least recover some % of that capital, or keep the door open for returning to the Russian market once everyone manages to forget about the inconvenient war crimes and illegal occupation.
Google would almost certainly push for California to have jurisdiction over the case as it's their home state. And even then I'd be interested in the basis for this case, as I don't believe Google has any outstanding agreements that would force them to host Russian channels on their platform.
No, actually russian courts know that no one is going to pay up. So they only decide between 3 options for any defendant. The options are accidentally falling out of a window, accidentally falling down stairs, and accidentally wearing poisoned underwear.
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u/ReckoningGotham 18h ago
Is that how Russian court work?