Google In Russia's Crosshairs Over Ukraine Videos
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Russia-Ukraine War: Russian courts have banned Facebook and Instagram, calling them "extremist" organisations, as well as Twitter.
A Russian court on Thursday slapped a series of small fines on Google for failing to take down contentious YouTube videos about the Kremlin's military operation in Ukraine.
The Moscow court ordered the US tech behemoth to pay a total of 11 million rubles ($135,000) for ignoring the state media regulator's orders to remove posts alleging heavy Russian losses in Ukraine.
One of the videos showed an alleged phone conversation between Russian soldiers and their relatives back home in which the troops complained of numerous casualties in their ranks, Russian state news agencies reported.
Another alleged that soldiers who were trying to move back from Ukrainian counter-offensives were being shot by retreat-blocking Russian detachments, the state media reports said.
