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Russia demands Google delete ‘illegal’ anti-government protest videos from YouTube

August 12,2019 16:21

Deutsche Welle. Russia’s media regulator on Sunday asked Google to delete from its YouTube platform videos of anti-government protests and arrests which took place in Moscow a day earlier.

Roskomnadzor said it complained to Google about unspecified “structures” allegedly using tools, such as push notifications, to spread information about illegal mass protests, “including those aimed at disrupting elections.”

Under pressure

The Russian watchdog said that if Google failed to respond to its request, it would consider it “interference in its sovereign affairs” and “hostile influence [over] and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia.”

Moscow would then reserve the right to react “appropriately,” it said, without elaborating.

Local elections

Protests erupted after several opposition candidates were controversially rejected from a ballot for an upcoming Moscow council vote.

Tens of thousands of Russians protested in Moscow on Saturday in favor of free and fair elections and against police violence, in the fourth demonstration in as many weeks.

Police have detained over 1,300 protesters taking part in the protests.

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Online surveillance

Russia has tough laws requiring search engines to delete some search results, messaging services to share encryption keys with security services, and social networks to store Russian users’ personal data on servers hosted on Russian soil.

Moscow has a track record of putting regulatory pressure on Google, one of the main rivals of Russian internet search company Yandex.

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