Russian officers on Saturday accused US video internet hosting service YouTube of blocking the channel of the decrease home of parliament and warned of reprisals.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the top of the Duma, mentioned Washington was breaching “the rights of Russians” whereas overseas ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned “YouTube has sealed its fate”.

“The United States wants to have a monopoly on the diffusion of information,” Volodin mentioned on Telegram.

“We cannot allow that”.

AFP journalists confirmed that the positioning was inaccessible.

According to Moscow, Duma-TV has greater than 145,000 subscribers. It airs clips of parliamentary debates and interviews of Russian lawmakers.

On Thursday, Russia’s state communications watchdog mentioned it could ban US web large Google from promoting its providers within the nation, accusing YouTube of spreading “fake news” about its navy marketing campaign in Ukraine.

Russia has moved to dam entry to non-state media and knowledge sources and fears are mounting that Google might be subsequent in line for a ban.

The watchdog mentioned Google-owned YouTube had dedicated “numerous violations” of Russian laws and was “one of the key platforms, distributing fake news about the course of the special military operation in Ukraine, discrediting the armed forces of Russia”.

It mentioned it had determined to “introduce measures of coercion”.

It mentioned these included “a ban on distribution of advertising for Google LLC and its information resources”.