MOSCOW, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Friday said

problems with slower speeds on YouTube in Russia were linked to

Google's failure to comply with Russian law and that President

Vladimir Putin was looking into the issue.

Russian internet monitoring services have reported mass

outages of the online video hosting service, which is owned by

Alphabet's Google, in the last few months. Russia

blames this on Google's failure to upgrade equipment,

allegations disputed by the company and technology experts.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the question of

improving speeds on YouTube, used by more than 50 million

Russians every day, according to Mediascope, is not high on

people's agendas.