Gazprom-Media press service reported that it is currently impossible to establish long-term business relations with the YouTube video hosting company. It gives information about TASS.
“It is not possible to establish long-term and understandable business relationships with a platform that unilaterally terminates,” the company said.
The press service recommended that all content producers use the Russian online service to host and watch Rutube videos as the base platform.
Last March YouTube blocked account of the TNT channel on video hosting without giving any reason. Along with TNT, the accounts of Russian NTV channels were also blocked. The Moscow Arbitration Court later ordered Google to pay a fine of up to 1 billion rubles to the Gazprom-Media holding. For refusing to unblock TNT YouTube channel.