Tens of thousands of people on Saturday staged what observers called the country's biggest political protest in years, defying a crackdown to demand free elections for the legislature of the capital, Moscow. Multiple YouTube channels broadcast the event live. Some videos attracted more than 50,000 people according to organisers. In contrast to previous protests, the authorities had approved this rally.
It said Russia would consider a failure by Google to respond to the request as "interference in its sovereign affairs" and "hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia".
If the company does not take measures to prevent events from being promoted on its platforms, Russia reserves the right to respond accordingly, Roscomnadzor said in its statement, without giving details.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 13 2019, @07:16PM
I have to agree with Putin on this one, this is straight up meddling and escalationism. I'm not saying they are not engaging in their own demoralization of USA with all the Commie shit, but it's up to us to call that out and stop it.