Nine Russian TV companies demand through the courts to unblock their YouTube channels. As an interim measure for their claims, a court in Moscow arrested the assets of Google LLC for 2 billion rubles, DW reports..

Arrests of the assets of a subsidiary of the transnational corporation " The plaintiffs sought the restoration of their YouTube channels.

These included TV channels NTV, TNT, ANO TV-Novosti (RT), Channel 360, All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Zvezda, OTR, TV Center and Moscow 24. Some of them filed multiple applications.

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In March, video hosting service YouTube, owned by Internet giant Google, announced that it would block state-funded Russian media around the world in connection with the war unleashed by Moscow in Ukraine..

In December 2021, a Russian court for the first time imposed a negotiable (depending on the amount of revenue) fine on Google in the amount of more than 7.2 billion rubles - for not removing content prohibited in Russia. In May of this year, the bailiffs opened a case on the enforcement of a fine..

On May 18, it became known that Google LLC began the bankruptcy process.. The notice, published in the federal registry of legally relevant information, stated that effective March 22, 2022, the company "