INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Google has begun evacuating its staff from Russia as the tech giant risks becoming the latest target of an unprecedented crackdown on free
speech amid Moscow's deadly invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.The web giant has in recent weeks
begun assisting some of its 244 employees who had expressed interest in relocating from Russia, Bloomberg cited unnamed people familiar with
the decisions as saying.Google suspended advertising in Russia following the invasion and its YouTube video hosting service said it has
calling for sabotage of Russian and Belarusian railways, and state media has reported that YouTube could be banned as soon as this
announcing a halt to its advertising business in the country.Industry experts say advertisers would face difficulties substituting ad
revenue from YouTube, according to a recent report by the business website RBC
at the Moscow-based Media Direction Group, as saying.Russia has increased pressure on mostly United States -based tech companies in recent
leviedincreasingly crippling fines on Google for regularly failing to take down content deemed illegal in Russia.
