A new chapter today for Rutube, the YouTube of Russia: the user-generated video site, long competing against YouTube in its home market and losing, has redesigned and is now turning itself into more ...

Under its "extremism" laws, Russia has recently been able to ban some of the most popular social media networks, namely Facebook, Instagram, and others. The Russian war in Ukraine has had its toll on ...

RuTube, Russia's answer to YouTube, was crippled for a second day on Tuesday by a cyber attack whose timing it linked to this week's anniversary celebrations of victory over Nazi Germany in World War ...

One of Russia’s largest video streaming websites was rendered inoperable for three days after it was the target of a cyberattack. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

The Kremlin is trying to lure users in Russia away from YouTube, one of the most popular Western social media networks in the country, to a homegrown alternative called Rutube. WSJ examines the ...

Hackers continue to target Russia with cyberattacks, defacing Russian TV to show pro-Ukrainian messages and taking down the RuTube video streaming site. During the Russian President Putin's speech at ...

For the first time, the Russian video hosting company Rutube overtook YouTube in terms of the number of viewers per day in Russia, gathering 23.8 million viewers against 22.3 million from a foreign ...