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RFE/RL: Google reportedly removes Navalny ad after Russian government complains

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (L) walks outside the Danilovsky police station in Moscow after being detained on Aug. 25.
Photo by AFP

Internet giant Google has reportedly removed from its YouTube website a paid advertisement placed by supporters of Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny urging Russians to participate in a protest set for September 9.

Leonid Volkov, a senior Navalny aide, posted on Telegram on September 8 that Google had “complied with an illegal demand by the Russian authorities” to remove the advertisement.

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