Yandex has added to its browser the technology of automatic voice-over translation into Russian of live broadcasts on the YouTube video hosting. Now, online broadcasts will be available in Russian in real time. It is noted that at the moment the technology is working in open beta testing mode. Translation of broadcasts on YouTube channels
YouTube Blocked Russian Main Orthodox TV Channel
YouTube video hosting has blocked the account of the Orthodox TV channel “Spas”, which had more than 1 million subscribers. Now the TV channel is switching to Rutube. Spas is a federal channel in Russia which is associated with the Russian Orthodox Church. In Russian, the word “spas” means “salvation”. The federal channel has started
Google Finally Paid Fines Issued by Russia
Google has paid all the fines imposed by the Russian courts, the decisions on which have entered into force, according to the press service of the corporation. The exact amount of all fines paid was not mentioned. As was previously reported by Roskomnadzor, in 2021 Google received fines of 32.5 million rubles in the Russian
Russian Cartoon Got Over 100 Billion Views on YouTube
The number of views of the Russian animated series “Masha and the Bear” on YouTube has exceeded 100 billion, the press service of the Animaccord animation studio reports. Five cartoon channels (English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Ukrainian) have already received diamond awards from the platform. “We are very pleased to see how YouTube helps to
Russian Experts Caught YouTube in Double Standards
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) regarded the actions of Google and the YouTube administration in Russia as censorship and restriction of the right of Russians to free access to information, Izvestia reports. It is reminded that YouTube has imposed age restrictions on Alexander Rogatkin‘s documentary film “Beslan”
Internet Commerce Industry Grew by 47% in Tatarstan
Over the past year, e-commerce showed an increase of 47 per cent, as stated by the founder of the iWENGO e-commerce business school, Yuliana Gordon, on a live broadcast of the #TatarstanOnline programme. It is noted that electronics, clothing, goods for home and repair, goods for children and health, food, as well as building materials
KIA Carnival Crossover to Appear Soon on Russian Market
The premiere of the new KIA Carnival crossover in Russia will take place on March 29, 2021, in the format of an online broadcast on the official KIA Motors Russia & CIS YouTube channel, the press service of the automaker reports. The production of the KIA Carnival cross-van has already been set up at the
Forbes Ranked Russian YouTube Bloggers by Ad Revenue
The LABELCOM YouTube channel topped Forbes‘ first ranking of Russian bloggers with the highest ad revenues ($3.55 million). The leadership was gained for the “What Happened Next?” show, in which comedians listen to the story of an invited guest, and then try to guess how it ended. The second place was taken by Valentin Petukhov,
Top 10 Popular Russian Bloggers
The analytical platform MMG Blogger Track has compiled a rating of the popularity of Russian bloggers among teenagers and young people for October 2020. When compiling the rating, experts took into account the number of bloggers’ subscribers aged 14 to 25 years. In addition, from the fan base, they excluded those who do not live
People With Schizophrenia Told About Their Life
A documentary film was released on the socially oriented YouTube channel ‘Secrets’, which is aimed at highlighting different points of view about the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Both people with this diagnosis and professionals who work with such patients took part in the creation of the video. “We want people to get rid of prejudices and
Novosibirsk Blogger Arranged Coca-Cola Fountain [Video]
The blogger from Novosibirsk, Maxim Monakhov, with the nickname “Mamix”, poured soda into a container with 10 thousand litres of Coca-Cola and filmed this on video. The height of the soda fountain was tens of metres. Mamix took several thousand bottles of soda, poured them together into a huge barrel, and made a huge
English Idioms: Educational Content from Russians on YouTube
As part of the RT project, the first issue of the new show “Slang!” was released on the “Speake Easy” YouTube-Channel. The show is devoted to the features of slang in different English-speaking countries. In the video, Alexey Yaroshevsky, explained stable expressions from the English language, which, when directly translated into Russian, sound strange, but
Russian Animation Studio Presented First 3D Short Cartoon [Video]
On the YouTube channel of the Russian animation studio (Soyuzmultfilm) appeared the first short work made in 3D. It is a short cartoon “Hamster Frosch: Friends in Search of a Treasure”. The cartoon was created based on the children’s book of the same name by Russian writer Elena Nikitina. The studio called the work an