diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/ntvru.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/ntvru.py
index 963bb715a..0ab8d5100 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/ntvru.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/ntvru.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-import re
-
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import (
     unescapeHTML