The Kremlin is trying to take control of Russian YouTube

in #news7 years ago

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It all started with the creation of the notorious bloggers Council, established on the basis of the State Duma, to which were invited by top Russian bloggers, such as EeOneGuy, Badcomedian, Sobolev and others.
http://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2017/06/20/5947e6469a794764344b7a27
YouTube community in turn together, except for a few unpopular youtubers, announced a boycott of the event, but that did not stop the populist Kremlin activity. Based on the popular pro-Kremlin information portal Life.ru was created YouTube project Druzhko show, which employs a whole horde of specialists in the field of public opinion research, controlled directly by the Chief Editor of Life news - Aram Gabreljanov.
https://www.google.ru/amp/s/m.lenta.ru/articles/2017/05/12/business_blog/amp/
The main task of the popular project is to popularize the Putin regime among youth and discrediting opposition politician Alexei Navalny. What's next?