The Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of the subsidiary of Gazprom-Media holding with the requirement to restore the account on the YouTube video hosting.
The court arrested the accounts and property of Google in Russia for 500 million rubles
The Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of the subsidiary of Gazprom-Media holding with the requirement to restore the account on the YouTube video hosting.
The Moscow Arbitration Court arrested the property and accounts of the Russian branch of Google in the amount of 500 million rubles at the suit of a subsidiary of the Gazprom-Media holding to restore an account on YouTube video hosting. This is stated in the ruling of the court, posted in the filing cabinet of arbitration cases on Tuesday, April 26.
As determined, GPM Entertainment TV filed a lawsuit against Google to invalidate a 2015 unilateral refusal to host content on YouTube. The company also demanded that full access to the YouTube channel be restored and that the defendant be ordered to pay a court penalty. The lawsuit is related to the blocking of the official TNT channel on YouTube, Interfax notes, citing the press service of Gazprom-Media.
In early March 2022, YouTube, owned by Google, began blocking government-funded Russian media channels. The platform linked this decision to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In particular, the accounts of TNT and NTV TV channels, which are controlled by Gazprom-Media, fell under the blocking.
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China, 176th place: territory of captivity
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Syria, 177th place: under bullets
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Turkmenistan, 178th place: imaginary independence
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North Korea, 179th place: the dictator dictates the rules
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