Russia Blocks Critic’s Site, Warns Google About Billionaire Yacht Videos
- Watchdog orders Navalny site blocked on Deripaska’s injunction
- Material deleted from Instagram, communications regulator says
Alexey Navalny in 2013.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Russia ordered a ban on access to opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s website and warned Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube to comply with demands to remove videos showing billionaire Oleg Deripaska on a yacht with a deputy prime minister and a woman described as an escort.
The Roskomnadzor communications watchdog said it’s waiting for a “positive decision” from YouTube after Deripaska obtained an injunction requiring the removal of seven videos that he says breach his right to privacy. Instagram posts covered by the court order have been deleted, the regulator said in an email Thursday.