Gazprom-Media reports anti-piracy successes

Russia’s Gazprom-Media initiated the blocking and removal of more than 7 million links to illegally placed copies of its content on the internet in 2022.

This, according to the holding, was 67% more than in 2021 (4.2 million). It included 4.6 million links from Yandex search results (2.6 million in 2021) and 2.8 million from Google search results (0.9 million in 2021).

During the year, the holding initiated 854 lawsuits. Some of them included claims for property compensation for copyright…