YouTube could soon see a significant drop in speed in Russia, with Google’s servers soon to be disconnected from Russian data centres. This action, which is expected to significantly degrade YouTube’s quality and speed, has been attributed by Russian officials to Google’s legal inability to finance its server infrastructure in Russia due to the sanctions imposed in 2022 in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. On July 26, Alexander Khinshtein, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications, alleged that Google’s use of ‘grey and semi-c…