Journalist, TV and radio host Vladimir Solovyov. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 8The American video hosting YouTube has blocked the channel of VGTRK TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov «Soloviev Live», the journalist said in his Telegram channel.
"YouTube removed the main and backup channels of the project Soloviev Live", wrote Soloviev.
When trying to watch videos from the channel published on third-party sites, the message «The video is not available because the YouTube account associated with it has been deleted» appears. Solovyov wrote on Telegram that he was ready to go live in the morning, «despite the war that the project was YouTube and Google», a link to the YouTube broadcast will be posted immediately before the broadcast. Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov is included in the list of sanctions imposed by a number of countries in connection with Russia's recognition of the DPR and LPR and the start of a military operation in Ukraine.
TikTok will stop distributing new content in RussiaRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that Moscow did not expect the West to impose sanctions on journalists, athletes, cultural figures. The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Fadeev, sent an appeal to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, and urged her to take measures to comply with the norms regarding freedom of the press, due to the harassment of Russian-language publications. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.