American tech giant Google has paid Russia more than 32 million rubles ($455,079) in fines for not deleting content deemed illegal by Moscow, a Russian lawmaker said on Monday. “Today, the figure of fines issued by Google for not removing illegal content was announced in the amount of 32.5 million rubles,” said Vasilii Piskarev, head of the Russian Committee on Security and Corruption Control, Russian news agency Interfax quoted him as saying. “Marco Pancini told us that they paid these fines,” Piskarev noted, speaking at an Oct. 25 news conference after the final results of online meetings between Russian officials and the management of Google and YouTube. Pancini leads YouTube’s public policy work in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Pancini said in a blog post that Google had paid all enforced fines on time. These stood at 32.5 million rubles for this year, communications regulator Roskomnadzor said last week. Roskomnadzor …