Kremlin Promotes Putin Globally on YouTube It Blocks in Russia
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The Kremlin is turning to Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube to get its message out to the world even as it’s throttling access for ordinary Russians to the US social media site.
President Vladimir Putin’s administration resumed posting videos on the channel in the past two weeks for the first time in six months. “We are making use of every resource to spread information about the work of the president,” his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the Tass news service.