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Russia’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, has ordered YouTube to block Alexey Navalny’s popular channel “Navalny Live.” This was reported by the channel’s producer, Lyubov Sobol — in a YouTube video.

According to Sobol, on the evening of Monday, July 26, the “Navalny Live” channel received an email from YouTube notifying them that Roskomnadzor had added the channel’s web address to a list of banned content. A similar notice from YouTube was also sent to Sobol’s personal channel.

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