MOSCOW, February 12 - RAPSI, Sergei Feklyunin. On February 11 the Moscow Commercial Court registered a lawsuit filed by YouTube LLC against Rospotrebnadzor, the consumer rights regulator, a court official told RAPSI.

The source did not disclose the essence or subject of the suit, but said that it is an issue for administrative law. RAPSI is attempting to find out more from the parties to the dispute.

On November 21, 2012, YouTube was added to the register of websites that contain prohibited information (zapret-info.gov.ru) as determined by the regulator. The consumer rights regulator is responsible for identifying websites that contain information promoting or explaining how to commit suicide.

Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief sanitary physician and head of Rospotrebnadzor, earlier told RIA Novosti that they had not asked the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media to block YouTube's video hosting service because it allegedly contained videos promoting suicides. Onishchenko said they had only proposed that the communications authority include 22 suicide promotional videos on the register of websites that contain prohibited information.
The YouTube video hosting service belongs to Google.