Storing YouTube videos in Russia will not be blocked. About this Ria Novosti was talked about by the head of the State's Duma Committee about the policy of notifying Sergey Boyarsky.
“No one will block anything. You do not block YouTube, Instagram is an extreme community. Of course, everything can change, our partners behave different,” he said.
The deputy reminded the words of the Russian Federation that Russia did not create greenhouse conditions to develop digital services. Recently, Deputy Anton Gorelkin said that Google had to pay a fine, returned to Russia and started updating technology to store YouTube videos to start working normally in the country.
According to him, Youtube traffic in Russia has decreased by a third and continues to decrease. Parliament noted that slowdown in the US platform has created a good motivation for the development of Russian Deokhosting video. The total requests of Russian TV channels for Google in February 2025 exceeded 2.8 rubles Duodcillion. Duodecillion is a unit with 39 numbers.