LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - As Moscow has suppressed independent, Russian-language media, YouTube has remained a bastion of online freedom of expression, giving opposition figures a platform to air ...

Russian lawmakers say access to YouTube will soon disappear entirely, marking the final stage of a years-long confrontation between the state and the world’s largest video platform. Officials frame ...

The throttling of YouTube, widely used for everything including watching cartoons and exposés on government corruption, comes amid fears that Russia will also shut down the Telegram messenger app ...

YouTube traffic in Russia has plummeted to just 20 percent of its “normal levels” in recent days, a leading Russian expert said, describing the situation as a “de facto” blocking of the video-sharing ...

A widespread outage of YouTube in Russia is preventing users from accessing the world’s largest video platform, and it comes amid rumors that the country intends to block Android and Google services.

MOSCOW — Russian internet monitoring services reported a mass outage on the availability of video hosting site YouTube on Thursday as Russian authorities step up criticism of the platform. Russian ...

Russia-focused news outlet Meduza reports that Russian authorities have dragged YouTube speeds down to an absolute crawl at just 128 kbps. Speeds this slow can't play videos over 240p, and can only ...

In December 2020, Vladimir Putin held his end-of-the-year press conference as normal. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic still raging in Russia and worldwide, the president insisted that things would be OK ...

WTF?! Russia seems to take pleasure in handing out fines to Western tech companies, but the latest one seems a little excessive. According to reports, a court in the country has hit Google with a fine ...