MOSCOW, April 26 (RAPSI) – The Moscow Commercial Court will resume the hearing of the YouTube LLC lawsuit against Rospotrebnadzor, the consumer rights regulator, on May 6, RAPSI reports from the courtroom on Friday.

YouTube LLC filed a lawsuit against the Russian authority seeking to overrule its decision to qualify one of its videos as containing information promoting or explaining how to commit suicide.

Google, which controls the YouTube video hosting service, said they received an order to remove a video tutorial on special makeup. After blocking the video in question, the company decided to contest the decision in court. A Google representative said they did not believe that the law On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development is aimed at limiting access to this kind of entertaining information.

Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief sanitary physician and head of Rospotrebnadzor, commenting on the lawsuit on February 14 said “taking matters to court is a valid step in civilized society.”

He said Rospotrebnadzor has received some 780 complaints about websites which contain information on suicide. In 106 cases, they decided that  there was no prohibited information displayed. The others were ordered to close.

The regulator said in March that YouTube remains the leading website in Russia in terms of the amount of content on suicide it hosts, while not taking any action to improve this situation.

Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor reported that YouTube has also been given the greatest number of orders (more than 40) to block specific content.