Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications
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He argues that this can only happen if a full-fledged alternative to video hosting appears.
“Proceedings are underway against Google for recognitionbankrupt. We have a large number of lawsuits against them, lawsuits are ongoing. Until there is a full-fledged replacement in the face of at least Rutube, which promised us all that in six months it would enter the arena and be able to become a replacement for YouTube. It was in April, six months have passed. We hope that Rutube will be able to do something by the end of the year,” Matveychev said.
Earlier, the owner of the Concord holding and Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, asked the Russian Prosecutor General's Office to check YouTube's activities.