Russia demands Google restore access to its media YouTube channels in Ukraine

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's state communications regulator on Sunday said it had written to Alphabet Inc's Google and demanded that access to Russian media's YouTube channels be restored on Ukrainian…

Russia warns media about what is published on situation in eastern Ukraine

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor on Thursday said media outlets must check the veracity of their reports about the situation in eastern Ukraine and only publish information from…

Russia says Twitter mobile slowdown to remain until all banned content is removed

By Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will continue slowing down the speed of Twitter on mobile devices until all content deemed illegal is deleted, state communications regulator Roskomnadzor told…

Russian mobile users struggle to make AppStore downloads before election

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Some Russian mobile users were unable to download updates from the AppStore on Monday and Apple reported an outage, as the authorities sought to block a banned…

Kremlin internet crackdown causing major outages as election looms

By Anton Zverev and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin's crackdown on websites linked to jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny and on technology used to evade online bans are…