Reuters reports that Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This after authorities complained that the videos would violate an election silence law before Sunday’s vote for regional governors.
The series of YouTube videos featured Navalny inviting Russians to join demonstrations on Sunday.On that day, polls suggest President Vladimir Putin’s former chief-of-staff Sergei Sobyanin will be comfortably re-elected as the capital’s mayor.