OREANDA-NEWS  If the YouTube management starts behaving decently, there will be no slowdown in the video hosting service. This was stated by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT TV channel, the words were broadcast on the program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" on Rossiya 1.

The journalist recalled that on the Direct Line, Russian President Vladimir Putin "mentioned journalists, bloggers, and public figures who were kicked out by YouTube." Simonyan noted that she was "the very activist" and urged her to "behave decently."

On December 19, Putin recalled that Google and YouTube had created problems for themselves in Russia by refusing to comply with the laws and openly cheating online to please the West. This is how the head of state answered the question of blogger Vlad Paper about the slowdown of the American video hosting in Russia.

In turn, Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, stressed that the president's position on YouTube looks absolutely justified.