Legislation & regulation

Russian lawmakers plan to tighten screws on social media

April 10, 2018

Deputies in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, have drafted a new version of legislation that would impose additional regulations on social networks. The draft legislation includes, in particular, the following points: Every major social network would be required to establish representation in Russia, to make it easier for the Russian authorities to communicate with these …

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Telemedicine becomes legal, attracts more investment in Russia

February 9, 2018

A new telemedicine law came into effect on January 1, allowing Russian citizens to benefit from a range of e-healthcare services. Signed by President Vladimir Putin in July 2017, the legislation makes legal remote professional communication between doctors, as well as communications between doctors and patients or their legal representatives, as reported by the news …

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Russian and Ukrainian entrepreneurs among top users of Estonian e-Residency program

February 7, 2018

In 2014, Estonia launched a unique program to help non-EU entrepreneurs gain access to global markets. Based on the most recent data, Russians and Ukrainians are among the major users of it. Alexey Voronkov, currently the country manager for Ukraine, shared some statistics about the program as of January 30, 2018: The current total number …

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Russian authorities order messaging apps to hide cooperation with law enforcement

February 6, 2018

Messaging services in Russia have been banned from disclosing any cooperation with law enforcement agencies, according to a new government decree issued last month. The decree orders messengers to “ensure the non-disclosure of any information regarding specific facts and contents” when cooperating with the authorities, as reported by The Moscow Times. The messengers are also required …

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Russian authorities still at odds over cryptocurrencies

January 15, 2018

While the Russian government and the central bank are preparing to regulate cryptocurrencies and ICOs — with a draft bill expected to be ready by mid-2018 —  notable divergences on the matter can still be observed among the concerned authorities. Thus Russian officials are wrestling with central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina to allow the trading of cryptocurrencies …

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Russia suffers holiday retail nightmare as cash registers crash

December 21, 2017

Since this past July, Russian retailers have been required to use internet-connected registers which transmit sales data to the authorities to improve tax collection. But retailers were left counting the cost of a holiday-season glitch that may have caused billions of rubles in lost sales after the failure of some of these registers. “A retail nightmare came …

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Presidential Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev: “In the totally new tech world that is emerging, the state’s capacity to intervene will decline”

September 26, 2021

A successful tech entrepreneur since the late 1990s, Dmitry Marinichev was apppointed Internet Ombudsman by President Putin in 2014. He is also a member of the Expert Committee of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and a member of the General Council of the Delovaya Rossia business association. In this exchange with EWDN Chief Editor Adrien …

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Telegram vs. FSB: Durov appeals to the UN

August 17, 2019

Telegram, which staunchly refuses to surrender encryption keys for all user exchanges, has appealed to the United Nations for support in their dispute with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The instant messenger is represented by lawyers from Agora, a Russian human rights group, reports Meduza, a Russian and English language online publication based in Latvia. In a letter to David …

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Russia’s antimonopoly authority clears merger between Uber and local service Yandex.Taxi

November 24, 2017

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has approved the Yandex-Uber plan to merge their respective taxi service activity in the country. To ensure fair competition, the antimonopoly authority has requested the companies to “provide users with the most complete and accessible information of the legal person carrying out the transportation, with the preservation of the history …

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Russia blocks access to 13 cryptocurrency trading sites

November 3, 2017

While the Russian government and the central bank are preparing to regulate cryptocurrencies and ICOs — with a draft bill expected to be ready by mid-2018 — the authorities have taken steps to limit cryptocurrency trading in the country. Thus yesterday Roskomnadzor, the Internet and telecom regulator, announced that it has blocked access to 13 …

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What is Russia’s new VPN ban all about?

November 2, 2017

This past summer the Russian authorities banned technologies that make it possible to circumvent Internet censorship. The lawmakers, who supported the bill unanimously, argued that Russia’s existing system to block illegal content on the Web was “not effective enough.” Ksenia Idrisova of BBC Monitoring explains what exactly has been banned, how the new legislation works, and what …

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Putin sets deadline to legalize ICOs and cryptocurrencies in Russia

October 26, 2017

The Russian authorities’ position about ICOs and cryptocurrencies, which has been subject to wide uncertainty and contradictory signals so far, should be clarified at last, according to President Putin’s decision to develop a legislative framework by July 1, 2018. Following a meeting on October 10 with Finance minister Anton Siluanov, Bank of Russia Head Elvira …

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