In Russia can block youtube already in September: what are the Kremlin say
A source close to the Russian Presidential Administration, reported to reporters that in July-August in some regions of the Russian Federation the work of YouTube will start to deteriorate. According to him, since September the service blocking. The second source of the publication confirmed that, according to him, YouTube in Russia is planned to block this fall.
At the same time, on the official Rostelecom website, on July 12, there was a notification of technical problems in the work of Google, which, in particular, is used to cache and accelerate the loading of YouTube video hosting content. It is reported that there was an overload of the available capacities. "It can affect the speed of loading and quality of playbacks on YouTube from subscribers of all Russian operators," Rostelecom said.
The Russian RBC portal writes that Russian Presidential President Dmitry Peskov denies plans for blocking YouTube in Russia. According to him, the mentioned failure occurred because the equipment has not been updated for more than two years, but video hosting allegedly took this position on the Russian market. "The company has chosen this path. We can only regret in this connection. But, of course, the departure from this market has its technological consequences.
In terms of the situation that arose," Dmitry Peskov said. We will remind, on June 12, Russian media reported that the Mozilla community restricted access in the Russian Federation to a series of extensions for the Firefox browser that the Russians used to bypass Internet blots.