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After being adopted by the State Duma on 23 June 2017 and approved by the Federation Council on 28 June 2017, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, on 1 July 2017 signed into force a new law enabling the country to quickly block derivative sites designed to circumvent the blocking of copyright-infringing websites. The amendments to the Federal Statute “On Information, information technologies and on the protection of information” (see IRIS 2014-3/40) will enable pirate mirror, proxy and other derivative sites to be blocked quickly by ISPs. Following the relevant decisions of...

On 9 May 2017, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin approved his Decree Стратегия развития информационного общества в Российской Федерации на 2017 - 2030 годы (Development Strategy of the Information Society in the Russian Federation in 2017-2030). The Strategy supersedes a similar act from 2008, then approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. The document consists of 65 paragraphs, divided into six chapters. The text begins with a list of general notions, followed by the description of Russia’s place in the modern information society, an enumeration of the national...

The Civil Code of the Russian Federation allows, under certain conditions, free use of works without the consent of the author and without payment of remuneration, but with a mandatory indication of his or her name and the source of borrowing. In particular, it is permitted to cite for informational purposes in the volume justified by the purpose of the quotation. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation adjudicated in a civil case filed by a famous Russian blogger against the website archi.ru which covers issues related to architecture, history and current affairs. At issue was the use of 22...

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted on 15 March 2017 amendments to the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation (No. 174-FZ of 18 December 2001) that significantly affect online reporting of court trials. In particular, paragraph 5 of Article 241 of the code  (“Openness”) (see IRIS plus 2014-2, p.8) now has an addendum that states: “transmission of an open court session via radio, television or online shall be admissible only with the permission of the presiding justice of the court. Transmission of an open court session at the pre-trial stage via radio, television or online...

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted on 21 April 2017 amendments to the Federal Statute on Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information (see IRIS 2014-3/40) that introduce a prohibition of foreign and restrictive regulation of national online cinemas. The act provides the notion of "the owner of an audiovisual service" and enumerates its responsibilities. Such an “owner” is defined as “the owner of a website and/or the website page on the Internet, and/or an information system, and/or a computer programme that are used to form and/or organize the distribution...