The Moscow Arbitration court on Monday rejected an appeal from Google and upheld a ruling that the U.S. firm broke anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position with its Android mobile platform, Russia's competition watchdog said. The Court found legal the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (the FAS Russia).

On September 18th, 2015 the FAS Russia found that Google violated antimonopoly legislation in part of abuse of its dominant position. FAS ruled that Google had broken the law by requiring pre-installation of certain applications on mobile devices running on Android, following a complaint by Russia's Yandex. Google did not agree with authority’s decision and appealed it to the Arbitration Court.

Google now has to amend its contracts with smartphone manufacturers in order to comply with the ruling, and pay a fine.