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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In a country where the AIDS epidemics is still spreading at an alarming pace — with 1.16 million infections officially reported by mid-2017, and more than 100,000 reported new cases each year — the Russian authorities have decided to ban a website, Parni+ (‘Guys+’), that provides the gay community with medical and social information about the disease. …
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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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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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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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The official reason for banning Telegram in Russia – its refusal to let the secret service decipher user messages, as required by Russian law, to “prevent terrorism” – might not be the real one. Revealed today by the Russian business daily RBC, an informal note written by an employee of the Federal Security Service (FSB), …
Russia’s telecom and Internet regulator Roskomnadzor stated on Monday that it requested telecom operators to block access to Telegram, following a court decision from last week. In an interview with Russian business daily Vedomosti on Monday, Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov said the regulator had first blocked 9,000 Telegram IP addresses. However, blocking access to the service did not …
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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Today the Tagansky District Court in Moscow ruled to block “immediately” access to instant messenger Telegram from Russia, following its refusal to provide remote access to their systems to the FSB. Adopted in 2016, a new Russian legislation (dubbed ‘Yarovaya law’ or ‘Big Brother law’) requires messenger apps and other “organizers of information distribution” to add additional …
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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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The Russian authorities are formally moving ahead with the process by which they could block the use of Telegram on Russian soil. On March 20 Roskomnadzor, the Internet and telecom regulator, officially informed Telegram that it’s in noncompliance with the law, after Telegram refused to provide decrypted copies of all user correspondence to the Federal …
AddVenture and Target Global Fintech Opportunities have injected 60 million rubles (roughly $1 million) to support Pravoved.ru, a legal consulting platform, the Russian media reported last week. The Pravoved legal consultants serve 7 million users per month — a record in Russia and even Europe, claims the company. The data accumulated over the years by this remote legal …
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