State Duma Deputy Anton Gorelkin wrote: telegram channelHe said Google may comply with Kiev’s request to “decommission” its search results and recommendations on YouTube.
On October 20, information emerged that a meeting was held between the wife of Ukrainian President Elena Zelenskaya and Google representatives. In addition to the requirements for viewing Crimea, the First Lady of Ukraine asked the company to “russify” search results for those accessing the site from Ukrainian territory and disable the connection of the republic to the CIS region on YouTube.
“Will Google comply with Kiev’s demands? Based on the vectors of American policy, yes: both outputs and recommendations will be improved. Will this help eliminate the Russian language on the territory of Ukraine? But I strongly doubt it,” Gorelkin wrote.
He claimed that all this was part of the information policy carried out on the territory of Ukraine. According to him, the authorities are taking steps to destroy the Russian language. At the same time, most residents of Ukraine continue to speak Russian.
Previously Moscow court accepted Google’s Russian subsidiary went bankrupt.