Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor today urged YouTube administrators to unblock dozens of Russian-funded media channels.
The Russian agency threatened “technical intervention” if the channels were not restored.
This may mean that users in Russia may be denied access to YouTube. So far, Russia has taken similar measures against Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
On March 1, administrators of the Google-owned YouTube platform announced they were shutting down Russian state media channels for violating internal rules that ban “content that denies, downplays or simplifies well-documented acts of violence.”
The Moscow media, for example, described the current events in Ukraine not as a war, but as “a special military operation to liberate the Russian-speaking population from Ukrainian nationalist forces.”
The number of channels subject to the measure is 54, including TV channels such as RBC, NTV and TNT, as well as Russian radio stations and news agencies.