Legislation & regulation

Russian parliament postpones adoption of digital assets bill

December 23, 2018

The State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, has postponed the second reading of a long-awaited bill intended to regulate to regulate digital financial assets, including cryptocurrencies, and ICOs. Lawmakers will review the draft law “On Digital Financial Assets” during the spring parliamentary session next year, the house deputy speaker Sergey Neverov announced. In …

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How Russia could build its own, autonomous Internet

December 21, 2018

On December 14 Russian lawmakers Lyudmila Bokova, Andrey Klishas and Andrey Lugovoy submitted to the State Duma draft amendments to the existing legislation to ensure a “secure and stable functioning” of the Internet network. Should these amendments be adopted, the country would use its own domain name system and Internet traffic routing, where only Russian websites would work. …

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Google fined in Russia for refusing to censor search results

December 13, 2018

Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, has fined Google for failing to comply with a law that requires online search engines to purge any hyperlinks to materials that are banned in Russia. Google has refused to connect to Federal State Information System (FGIS) where these websites are listed. The fine amounts to 500,000 rubles ($7,537 at today’s …

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Crimea considers creating blockchain infrastructure for international investors to avoid sanctions

November 20, 2018

The authorities of Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula which has been disputed between Russia and Ukraine since 2014, are considering creating a new international blockchain technology training center. Such a center would teach “specialists from countries under sanctions how to use new technologies to attract foreign investors,” Roman Tkachenko, the president of the Crimean Republican Association …

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Russians eye two islands for crypto exchanges

September 16, 2018

While authorities in Moscow are still fine-tuning their revamped crypto legislation, to be presented for public discussions in October, participants in last week’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok have been busy discussing regulatory matters related to cryptocurrency mining and the circulation of digital coins in the vast country. Several Russian regions have been mentioned multiple …

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“Groundless persecution” of social media users raises growing protests in Russia

August 15, 2018

The authorities’ propensity to crackdown on social media users for their activity with supposedly unlawful content has become excessive even in the taste of such an established and little opposition-minded Internet business as Mail.Ru Group. The group dominates the Russian social media scene with its properties VK (Vkontakte) and OK (Odnoklassniki). Listed on the LSE, …

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‘Big Brother law’ comes into force: Internet companies required to store massive amounts of content

July 3, 2018

New provisions of a controversial law on Internet communications came into force on July 1, with a government order requiring Internet companies to store the content and the metadata of all their users’ communications for a significant period of time Adopted in 2016, this new legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) has entailed huge costs for …

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Russia prepares for cryptocurrency and ICO regulation

May 25, 2018

Earlier this week the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, approved almost unanimoulsy in first reading a bill to regulate digital financial assets, including cryptocurrencies, and ICOs. According to the new law, digital financial assets are not a legal method of payment Russia. The text regards cryptocurrency and tokens as digital property, with the …

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Russia to ban websites that “compromise the honor” of Internet users

April 27, 2018

Russian censors may see their workload increase again with a new law coming into force against websites that “discredit the honor, dignity and business reputation of citizens and legal entities.” The law was signed President Vladimir Putin Monday last week. Internet resources can be banned following a court decision, should they refuse to remove the contentious content. Roskomadzor, …

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US government considers specific sanctions against Kaspersky Lab

April 27, 2018

Kaspersky Lab could be targeted by specific sanctions “as part of a wider round of action carried out against the Russian government,” CyberScoop reported earlier this week, refering to “US intelligence officials familiar with the matter.” The Russian cybersecurity company has two ongoing lawsuits against the US government, which were filed in response to the recent …

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Russia’s crackdown on Telegram disrupts Google services across the country

April 23, 2018

On April 23, Russian Internet users reported mass disruptions to almost all services offered by Google — from the main search engine to the company’s reCAPTCHA (which distinguishes human users from bots). The outages started after Russia’s federal censor added another 118 Google IP addresses to the country’s Internet blacklist over the weekend. After a wave …

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Russia’s Health Ministry wants a ban of online propaganda from ‘HIV dissidents’

April 19, 2018

As reported by business daily Kommersant, Russia’s Health Ministry has proposed legislation that would outlaw the publication of information that incites people to refuse medical treatment for HIV infections. The ban would also apply to propaganda for so-called “HIV dissidents” — people who believe the AIDS virus is a myth. Individuals who defy the law would face …

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