The YouTube video-hosting site and app have stopped being accessible across Russia, thousands of Internet users in the country said online on August 8.
The Downdetector website registered the majority of complaints coming from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Yekaterinburg.
Two weeks ago Russian lawmaker Aleksandr Khinshtein announced that in several days the speed of video uploads to YouTube in Russia will decrease by 70 percent, saying that YouTube "violates and ignores the law with impunity."
In early July, YouTube blocked the channels of several Russian singers and artists over their support of Russia's war in Ukraine.
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