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LinkedIn, the major global professional social network, has been banned in Russia after a Moscow City Court upheld an earlier court decision taken upon a claim by Roskomnadzor, the governmental supervisory authority in media, communications and personal data traffic (see IRIS 2012-8/36). LinkedIn stood accused of failing to comply with a 2014 federal law requiring Internet companies that process Russian citizens’ personal information to store their user data on servers located in Russia (see IRIS 2014-8/35). Reportedly Linkedin had more than 6,000,000 users in Russia. The court of first instance...

On 3 November 2016, the Russian Supreme Court amended two of its earlier resolutions that provided additional explanations to the judges in the country on the issues of court practice relating to crimes of terrorism and extremism. The amendments were made in the resolutions “On Judicial Practice Relating to Criminal Cases on Crimes of an Extremist Nature” and “On Some Aspects of Judicial Practice Relating to Criminal Cases on Crimes of Terrorist Nature” (see IRIS 2012-3:1/32). While most of the amendments do not introduce new elements in the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the use of media and...

The State Duma (Parliament) adopted on 22 June and President signed into law on 30 June 2016 amendments to the federal statutes “On state civil service of the Russian Federation” (2004) and “On municipal service in the Russian Federation” (2007), that relate to the use by state and municipal servants of social media and other websites and/or webpages that may identify them. The new rules demand from civil (municipal) servants and applicants to the positions of civil (municipal) servants that thay provide their employer with information on the addresses of the websites and webpages where they posted...

On 19 July 2016 the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation adopted a set of rules to facilitate its remote access to decoding information from “organizations that distribute information” online (Internet and telecom providers), such as all text, voice, graphic, sound, video, and any other messages of their customers. It follows the recently adopted amendments to the federal statutes “On Communications” and “On Information, Information Technologies, and Protection of Information” (see IRIS 2016-8/31). The procedures approved by the FSB stipulate that the Organization and Analytics...

The State Duma (parliament) of the Russian Federation adopted on 10 June 2016 amendments to the Federal Law on Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information (see IRIS 2014-3/40, 2014-6/31) and the Administrative Code. These amendments require owners of Internet search engines (“news aggregators”) with more than one million daily users to be accountable for the faithfulness of content “essential for the public”, except when such content represents a verbatim reproduction of materials published by media outlets registered in Russia. Such materials, if distributed by aggregators...