Yevgeny Prigozhin asked the Prosecutor General's Office to block YouTube in Russia

Businessman, founder of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin sent a statement to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, in which he asked to restrict access to the YouTube video service, as well as to declare Google's activities in Russia "undesirable". on VKontakte by This was reported the press service of Prigozhin's company Concorde.

“YouTube is flooded with fakes aimed at discrediting the Russian military, spreading deliberately false information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces, state authorities and administration, as well as patriotic forces,” Prigozhin said in a statement.

The businessman believes that the United States is waging an information war with Russia - and "disinformation and negative attitudes introduced with the help of YouTube are actively used as the main weapon of destruction." Prigozhin said the video service has a "consistent policy of censorship for Russian channels" and recently restricted access to Federation Council accounts.

• YouTube is a video hosting service owned by the American company Google. In March, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the service blocked the channels of Russian state media, including RT, Sputnik, Rossiya Segodnya, RBC.
• In March, RIA Novosti, citing sources , reported that YouTube would soon be blocked in Russia, but this did not happen. Against the background of the threat of a ban on Google's activities, including because of YouTube, the company secretly removed some of its employees from Russia.
• In October, after blocking YouTube channels of the Federation Council, the Russian Ministry of Digital Development stated that there were no plans in Russia to block access to YouTube. At the same time, Rutube CEO Alexander Moiseev said that blocking YouTube would not help the development of Russian video hosting.