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Government hotline to combat consumer rights violations in online retail

April 24, 2012

The Public Chamber, a state organization which aims to organize and enhance the relationship between Russian citizens and government, plans to open a hotline next month to field consumer complaints about violations of consumer rights by e-commerce sites. This initiative was announced by Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer who heads the Public Chamber’s commission on citizens’ …

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SMS spammers could face five years in prison

March 6, 2012

SMS spam should be considered a medium-gravity crime, which implies punishment of up to five years in prison, suggested participants at a meeting last week which brought together Russian regulation and surveillance agencies as well as leading mobile operators. Telecom regulator Roskomnadzor also suggested changing the rules for providing telecommunication services and content.

Vkontakte.ru too “passive” with copyright infringement, says arbitration court

February 22, 2012

Last week, the St. Petersburg Arbitration Court offered long-awaited explanations about the decision it issued in January of last year regarding an alleged copyright infringement involving Vkontakte.ru, the leading social network in Russia. The Gala Records record label had accused Vkontakte of having illegally offered online copyrighted recordings by the Russian band ‘Infinity’. Vkontakte claimed …

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2012 expected to be Russia’s breakthrough year for LTE

January 31, 2012

After years of strategic discussions, long bureaucratic processes, and unsuccessful attempts to launch 4G, 2012 promises to be the breakthough year for LTE deployment in key areas of Russian territory. While three players – Scartel, Rostelecom and Osnova Telecom – had received their own frequencies for LTE deployment by the end of 2011, additional frequencies …

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Microsoft accuses Russian engineer of creating Kelihos botnet

January 26, 2012

Earlier this week, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, made the findings of its Kelihos botnet investigation public, accusing Andrey Sabelnikov, a Russian engineer from St Petersburg, of having created the bot code and conducted the operation. In the original complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in September, Microsoft alleged …

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Vrublevsky freed after 6 months in jail

December 30, 2011

Pavel Vrublevsky was released last week after spending 6 months in Lefortovo prison in Moscow, following his arrest in June of 2011 for organizing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the website of Assist, a competitor of his company, Chronopay. A leading Russian online payment processing company, Chronopay processes almost half of all Visa and …

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Vkontakte.ru still blacklisted by US government for piracy

December 23, 2011

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has made public a new edition of its Notorious Markets List earlier this week, identifying  “selected markets, including ones on the Internet, that are reportedly engaged in piracy and counterfeiting” across the globe. Specifically, the blacklist enlarges upon the geographical origin and the dubious commercial nature of marketplaces …

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Moscow couple charged with video piracy with over $1 billion in damages

November 3, 2011

Moscow residents Andrey and Natalya Lopukhov have been charged with Internet video piracy, with Russian and international copyright owners seeking damages estimated at over 38 billion rubles, or $1.26 billion. The Russian Office of the Prosecutor General ordered the couple to be arraigned in court on criminal charges, the Russian press reported last week.

ChronoPay owner Vrublevsky pleads guilty in cyber attack case, court extends detention

November 2, 2011

Moscow city court confirmed almost two months of extended detention for prominent Russian Internet businessman Pavel Vrublevsky, who is expected to be held until December 23. The court has rejected an appeal filed by Vrublevsky’s attorneys to release the entrepreneur on bail for 30 million rubles, a sum of almost $1 million. Vrublevsky, 32, was …

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Electronic Commerce Association to promote “civilized business”

October 14, 2011

Oborot.ru, Russia’s leading online resource and event organizer for e-commerce, announced yesterday the creation of the Electronic Commerce Association, which aims “to facilitate the development of online retail businesses and define the principles of civilized business.”

New law aims to relieve bureaucratic burden on Russian citizens

October 6, 2011

New federal legislation on administrative electronic exchange, which went into effect on October 1st in regard to federal agencies, could radically simplify the exchange between private citizens and Russian administrative bodies. Under the new law, federal officials will no longer be able to request documents or information from private citizens already available in the databases …

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