- Title: Kremlin says Google should lift its YouTube block on Russian broadcasters
- Date: 31st October 2024
- Summary: Drone footage on Thursday (October 31) showed cars and debris piled up on a train track in the town of Chiva after deadly floods in southeastern Spain. (6118-EUROPE-WEATHER/SPAIN-DRONE) CHIVA, SPAIN (OCTOBER 31, 2024) (REUTERS) (MUTE) VARIOUS DRONE SHOTS SHOWING CARS AND DEBRIS PILED UP ON TRAIN TRACK OF FLOODED TOWN Residents of the flood-hit suburb of Torrent, on the out
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- Keywords: Google Kremlin Putin Russia Ukraine Ukraine War YouTube ads
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- Country: Russia
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- Story Text: The Kremlin said on Thursday (October 31) that Alphabet's Google should lift its block on Russian TV channels broadcasting on YouTube and said it hoped huge legal claims racking up against the U.S.-based company would jolt it into action.
Google stopped serving ads to users in Russia in March 2022 and paused monetization of content which it deemed to exploit, dismiss or condone Russia's war in Ukraine.
It has since blocked more than 1,000 YouTube channels, including state-sponsored news, and over 5.5 million videos.
Russian business newspaper RBC reported this week that legal claims brought by 17 Russian TV channels against Google in Russian courts, which have imposed compound fines on Google's turnover in Russia, had reached 2 undecillion roubles, a number with 36 zeroes.
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