Internet giant YouTube has blocked RFE/RL’s Russian Service and Russia’s Dozhd television from using a clip from an Aug. 30 election debate shown on Russian state television in which candidate Maksim Shevchenko called for the release from prison of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and other “political prisoners.”
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RFE/RL: YouTube blocks Russian candidate’s call for release of ‘political prisoners’
(FILES) In this file photo taken on Dec. 04, 2012 a YouTube logo during LeWeb Paris 2012 in Saint-Denis near Paris.
