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Russian authorities are planning to throttle access to the popular video platform YouTube in a move seeking to punish the company’s management for being “anti-Russian,” a lawmaker said on Thursday. “By the end of the week, the speed of YouTube downloads on stationary computers may drop by 40% and by the end of next week by 70%,” Alexander Hinshtein, a member of the Russian State Duma, posted on Telegram. He heads the Russian parliament’s information policy committee and said this was not a move to restrict users in Russia, but against the holding company’s management, which he said, “still bel…

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