Legislation & regulation

Russian Internet censorship: A journey into the belly of the Kremlin’s media watchdog

February 14, 2016

This summer, for a short while, pages on Reddit and Wikipedia were technically banned in Russia. While the ban targeted only individual pages of these popular websites, roughly a third of Russian Internet providers lacked the tools necessary to block specific content within a site built on the https protocol. As a result the entire Reddit and Wikipedia became inaccessible …

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Personal data storage and management in Russia: Report by EWDN and EY sheds full light on legal and organizational challenges

February 15, 2017

Starting from September 2015, the personal data of Russian citizens must be stored on servers located physically on the Russian territory. Adopted last year in a bid to affirm Russia’s digital sovereignty, this new law has provided many players with challenges due both to its demanding requirements and the ambiguity of some of its key provisions (see details in EWDN’s …

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Russia exempts airline ticketing systems from personal data storage law

February 15, 2017

The Russian law on personal data storage will not apply to airlines and air ticket booking systems, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has announced on its website. Adopted last year, the new legislation forbidding storage of Russian citizens’ personal data in foreign countries has posed new challenges to many companies – both foreign and domestic – which store their …

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Russian lawmakers want government to develop automated system for hunting Internet trolls

February 14, 2016

Vadim Dengin, who sits on the Duma Committee for Information Policy and Communications, has submitted a formal request to police and the Communications Ministry asking officials to develop software capable of automatically detecting Internet trolling. Dengin told the newspaper Izvestia that it’s especially necessary to counteract online trolling when it leads to offline criminal activity. He cites …

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Russia is considering blocking access to Reddit

February 15, 2016

Russia is considering blocking access to Reddit for its citizens over complaints that the site is hosting information showing how to cultivate narcotics. According to a post from Roskomnadzor (the ‘Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications’) on Russia’s VKontakte (VK.com) social network, the organization has been in touch with Reddit …

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Hundreds of Russian bloggers registered with media regulator

February 16, 2016

Russia’s media watchdog has classified 640 blogs and online communities as equal to the media, making their content subject to certain restrictions, the watchdog said on its Twitter page Monday. Under the law adopted last year, bloggers and Internet users with public web pages visited by more than 3,000 people a day are eligible for inclusion …

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Russian taxi firms lobby for restrictions on Internet services

March 2, 2017

Russian taxi companies are seeking the imposition of restrictions on Internet-based taxi providers such as Uber, the Kommersant newspaper reported Monday. Established firms contend that Internet-based dispatchers are deliberately undercutting prices and operating illegally with impunity, according to Kommersant. “Aggregators do not have the same costs as we do: they don’t conduct medical examinations of …

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Putin signs ‘right to be forgotten’ bill into law

February 28, 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial bill that allows citizens to demand that internet search engines remove links to personal information deemed “false” and “irrelevant,” as well as to that distributed in violation of the law. The law on the so-called “right to be forgotten,” signed by Putin on July 14, …

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Personal data storage law: Russian authorities might postpone Sept. 1 deadline

February 15, 2017

Russia will address Internet firms’ concerns about meeting a deadline to comply with a law forcing them to move the personal data of Russian citizens onto servers inside the country, a Kremlin spokesman said on Monday. Under a law last year, Internet sites that store the personal data of Russian citizens must do so on Russian …

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Global players challenged by new Russian law on personal data storage

February 15, 2017

Just two months before the new Russian law on personal data storage will come into effect, many international players are implementing the necessary steps to comply with it. Thus last month Booking.com announced that all data from its Russian users will soon be transfered to a local data center. Preceding Booking.com were such companies as eBay, Google, PayPal, …

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Facebook targets Roskomnadzor official over hate speech

February 17, 2016

Facebook has deleted a post written by Maxim Ksenzov, the deputy head of telecom regulator Roskomnadzor. Notably, Ksenzov is the very same official who warned Facebook back in May that the company will face penalties if it does not hand over traffic statistics for popular Russian Facebook users to the Russian government. While Ksenzov’s page may have …

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