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On 29 July 2017 President Vladimir Putin signed into law amendments to the Statute on the Mass Media that further detail registration procedures for media outlets. In particular they add to Article 7 a ban on establishing a media outlet for individuals who have been convicted for committing crimes involving the use of the media or telecommunications networks, such as the Internet, or for committing crimes related to extremist activities. An amendment to Article 19 establishes an identical ban in respect of editors-in-chief. Article 16 of the Statute on the Mass Media on the procedure for the issuance...

On 29 July 2017 President Vladimir Putin signed into law two sets of amendments to the Federal Statute on information, information technologies and protection of information (the IT Law - see IRIS 2014-3/40 and IRIS 2014-6/31). Federal Statute N 276-FZ, which enters into force on 1 November 2017, grants significant powers to Roskomnadzor, the governmental supervisory authority on media, communications and personal data traffic (see IRIS 2012-8/36), to pursue persons/entities on Russian territory that utilise or provide access to information systems and resources, such as virtual private networks...

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...