In September 2015, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service announced its decision that Google had violated Russian law by tying its mobile apps to Google Play and setting additional restrictions on mobile device manufacturers, including limiting what other apps they install and how they configure those apps and devices. These topics are of great interest to me since I was the first to publicly distribute the Mobile Application Distribution Agreements, and because I explored related questions at length in my 2015 article Does Google Leverage Market Power Through Tying and Bundling? and more recently my working paper Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google’s Practices in Mobile (with Damien Geradin).
For those who wish to understand the reasoning and conclusions of Russia’s FAS, one key limitation is that the September 2015 decision is available only in Russian. While the case document library summarizes key facts, allegations, and procedural developments, that’s no substitute for the full primary source documents.
In the course of expanding my Android and Competition Law paper, I recently obtained an English translation of the September 2015 decision. The decision is unofficial but, as best I can tell, accurate and reliable. It suffers redactions, but the original in Russian has the same limitation. I offer it here to anyone interested: