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Channel One sued Google. Probably due to the blocking of the YouTube channel
The Moscow Arbitration Court registered the claim of Channel One against Google structures - the parent American company Google LLC, the Irish Google Ireland Limited and the Russian Google LLC.
The claims are not indicated in the case card, but as RIA Novosti, which drew attention to the claim, suggests, the broadcaster demands to restore access to its YouTube channel.
- After the start of the war in Ukraine, video hosting YouTube announced that it would block the channels of Russian state-funded media. Among others was limited . , access to the YouTube channels RT, Sputnik, Rossiya Segodnya, RBC and other media
- Roskomnadzor accused YouTube of censorship, calling it "a tool in the anti-Russian information war", and also introduced "coercive measures" against video hosting for spreading "fakes" about the war.
- On May 22 , it became known that the service had removed more than 70,000 videos and nine thousand channels related to the war in Ukraine. Among the deleted videos were videos that referred to the Russian invasion as a “liberation mission.”