INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authorities in Russia have called on Google to restore more than 200 pro-government YouTube channels that have been blocked since the
channels of the Kremlin-funded broadcaster RT and the news website RBC as being among the channels it wants restored, TASS
that the Russian government is deliberately slowing down YouTube, with plans to start blocking it entirely later this year
as it has with Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram, along with scores of independent media outlets.YouTube suspended monetization
and all payment-based services in Russia following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Before the full-scale invasion, Russia threatened to punish
Google and other Western tech companies if they failed to delete banned content, including anything in support of the late opposition figure
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