YouTube feels heat as Russia ramps up “digital sovereignty” drive

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The Russian-language online news channel was best known for its priestly presenters and conspiratorial musings about the global financial system plotting against Moscow-suspicions it viewed as confirmed last July when the Google-owned streaming service took the channel down over what it claimed was a US sanctions breach.

Now Tsargrad is poised to strike back after a landmark court ruling that could put Google's entire Russian business in jeopardy as Moscow steps up attempts to force western technology companies to comply with its laws.

A Moscow court last month ordered Google to reinstate Tsargrad's YouTube channel globally on the grounds the ban had unfairly discriminated against its owner, Konstantin Malofeev.

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