OREANDA-NEWS  There is a possibility of blocking YouTube video hosting in Russia, said Oleg Matveichev, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy. 

Earlier, the founder and head of the private military company (PMCs) "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin announced that YouTube will be closed in the near future, and those who continue to use it will be punished.

The deputy pointed out that the video hosting does not pay fines and blocks everyone in a row. In his opinion, YouTube is not just a platform, but a weapon of information warfare. "Just as we should not allow the enemy's army to enter our territory, in the same way, there should also be no foreign enemy resources in our information space. This is our information sovereignty," Matveichev said.

The parliamentarian said that he did not know when the blockage would occur, but urged Russian users to prepare for it by switching to Russian sites and unwinding them.