Russia May Block YouTube and Instagram As Early As Wednesday Unless They Agree To Remove 7 Videos And 14 Instagram Posts

Bloomberg: Sexy ‘Graft’ Video May Lead Russia to Block Instagram, YouTube

* Billionaire wins hometown court order to remove videos, posts
* Navalny accused Deripaska, deputy prime minister of corruption

Russia may block access to YouTube and Instagram after billionaire Oleg Deripaska won a court injunction against videos and photographs that showed him and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko relaxing on a yacht with a woman described as an escort.

Deripaska won an order from Ust-Labinsk court in his native Krasnodar region ordering the removal of 14 Instagram posts and seven YouTube videos that breached his right to privacy, according to a spokeswoman for his Basic Element company. Anti-Kremlin campaigner Alexey Navalny said the order also threatens to block his website after he published an online film alleging that the videos and photographs posted by the woman, who calls herself Nastya Rybka, showed evidence of a corrupt relationship between the aluminum tycoon and the senior minister.

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Update: Russia may block YouTube and Instagram after ‘graft’ video with model, deputy PM and billionaire goes viral (SCMP)

WNU Editor: If Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko are successful in blocking YouTube and Instagram in Russia .... they will have to qua-triple their security detail. The number of Russians that will be enraged by this act .... and only weeks away from Russia's Presidential election .... makes me shake my head. There is stupid .... and then there is real stupid. But this is one is a category of its own.

Update #2: The above video is what is causing this stink. It is long (25 minutes), but there is an English translation. And WOW!!!! .... after watching it I forgot how crazy Russians can be. No wonder Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko want this video (and others) removed. But this Russian escort did not only produced videos .... she even wrote a book!!!! If you have the time .... watch the entire video ... for Russian watchers this is a must see.

Bottom line .... are millions of Russians now going to be denied using YouTube and Instagram because of these two idiots. Like I said. I forgot how crazy some Russians can be.

Hat tip to Fred for this link.