YouTube disappeared is Bulk — the office of the opposition leader called it «political censorship»

Google removed from YouTube a is the Russian politician Alexei Navalny, who called on countrymen to say «no» to raising the retirement age.

Sunday across Russia held gubernatorial elections. However, on 9 September will be remembered not as a day of peaceful expression of the will of the people. After Navalny said that it is unacceptable to pension reform, in many cities of Russia disagree with the innovation came at a protest.

YouTube disappeared is Bulk — the office of the opposition leader called it «political censorship»

But since the protests have not been previously «agreed», they turned into large-scale arrests with use of force. According to the monitoring group of human rights OVD-info, in 19 cities were detained nearly 900 protesters, the majority of arrests occurred in St. Petersburg.

In addition, even before yesterday’s events, the Russian Central election Commission found that the appeal Bulk «to the streets», which appeared also in the form of advertising on YouTube, violating prohibition the day before the vote to engage in election campaigning. As a result Google was removed from hosting the video.

«We demand that the advertisers had acted in accordance with local laws and our advertising policy,» — said in Google.

One of the assistants Navalny stressed that the removal of advertising from YouTube is «political censorship».

Navalny himself planned to lead a protest in Moscow on 9 September, but in August he was sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for violation of the law on public demonstrations. The opposition categorically rejected the charges against him and a prison sentence is called an attempt to disrupt his election campaign.

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