Russia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will not comply with PACE resolutions that have been adopted during the years of its absence, the head of the delegation and the deputy speaker of Russia's lower house of Parliament, Pyotr Tolstoy, said on Tuesday.

"We are not going to comply with a single resolution that has been adopted in absence of the Russian Federation", Tolstoy told reporters.

In April 2014, Russia was stripped of its voting rights in the organisation in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis and aftermath of the Crimea referendum.

Since 2016, the Russian delegation has not been renewing its credentials ahead of the assembly's sessions, in protest of the discrimination it faces within PACE.

Moscow has also frozen its contributions to the Council of Europe, stating that payments would be withheld until the Russian delegation's rights are fully restored.

PACE supported sanctions against Moscow, but later urged Russia to pay the fees and come back to the assembly. However, Russia has demanded guarantees that it will be granted the right to vote before it returns, so the delegation won't be stripped of its rights again.

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Google's video platform YouTube is apparently no place for content that accuses the tech giant of political bias and election meddling. An expose based on a sting operation was taken down by the company a day after its release.

YouTube, the world's most popular video sharing platform, which is owned by Google, soon took down the videos that were uploaded by Project Veritas, its head James O'Keefe reported. The footage was removed "due to a privacy claim by a third party," a message now tells anyone trying to view it.

The third party is probably Jen Genai, Google's head of 'Responsible Innovation,' who was featured in the report, discussing the company's policies in a secretly filmed interview with Project Veritas agents. She also addressed the expose in a blog post, saying that the people she met "lied about their true identities, filmed me without my consent, selectively edited and spliced the video to distort my words and the actions of my employer, and published it widely online."

Genai said Project Veritas ambushed her to get "juicy soundbites" for their report, and insisted that she is not some powerful executive with influence on Google politics. The claim that Google was going to influence the 2020 presidential election "is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course," she said. Whatever Google does with its search algorithms and rankings is meant to prevent "foreign interference" and not to tip the scales in domestic debates, she added, which presumably makes the company's gatekeeping techniques all fine.

Project Veritas previously had its videos taken down by YouTube. Just this month, its report on alleged suppression of conservative voices on Pinterest was removed from Google's platform, which again cited privacy violation as the reason for the move.

This month, YouTube also banned or demonetized a number of creators after a complaint by Vox journalist Carlos Maza. The crackdown was done under the platform's new rules on content, which are meant to fight online harassment and hate speech. Critics say in effect they stifle political debate by allowing left-wing commentators to paint their critics as harassers and have YouTube take punitive action.

"They're trying to rig the election" in 2020, Trump said, seemingly singling out Google in an interview with Fox Business on Wednesday.

Trump blasted Twitter and Google for silencing conservative voices and harboring "hatred for the Republicans."

"Twitter is just terrible, what they do. They don't let you get the word out," he said.

I'll tell you what, they should be sued because what's happening with the bias.

The president added that the tech giants "make it much harder for me to get out the message."

"These people are all Democrats. It's totally biased toward Democrats. If I announced tomorrow that I'm going to become a nice liberal Democrat, I would pick up five times more followers."

Two days earlier, right-wing transparency group Project Veritas shared a video in which Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, argued against proposals to break up the company, as this would cause Google to fail at "preventing the next Trump situation."

Gennai later claimed that she had used "some imprecise language" and had no idea that she was being filmed. Nevertheless, the incident added to the longstanding accusations of liberal, left-wing bias that conservatives have leveled against Google.