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On 30 December 2013 President Vladimir Putin of Russian Federation signed into law a bill adopted by the State Duma (parliament) on 17 December 2013, in a first reading, and on 20 December 2013, in the second and the third readings. The bill amends Article 15 of the Law on Information, Information Technologies and Protection of Information (see IRIS 2013-8/33) so as to allow the Prosecutor General and his deputies to order blocking websites containing content such as calls to unsanctioned public protests and to “extremist” activities. The act now introduces the following procedure: without judicial...

On 2 July 2013, the President of the Russian Federation signed into law the Federal Statute amending several provisions of the Russian Civil Code. This law was adopted as part of the civil legislation reform underway in Russia. Under the new law some aspects of non-material values protection are regulated in a slightly different way (including inter alia protection against defamation and protection of person’s image, see IRIS 2013-8/32), and some brand-new provisions introduced (protection of privacy). The major focus of the Statute is the development of new legal mechanisms for the protection...

On 2 July 2013, the President of the Russian Federation signed into law the Statute amending several statutes of civil law, procedural law and information law. The new Act introduces a number of measures aimed at boosting the ability of rightsholders to cease stop distribution of illegal video content via the Internet. According to the Statute, a new Article was introduced into the Civil Code (Art. 1253.1) providing rules for liability of so called “internet mediators”, i.e. those either providing technical transmission of the information on the Internet (internet providers) or providing the hosting...

On 9 July 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation adopted a Resolution concerning the constitutionality of several paragraphs of Article 152 (“Defamation”) of the Russian Civil Code. The case was raised by a citizen named Krylov who complained that the Civil Code does not oblige the Internet service providers (ISPs) to remove defamatory statements made by third parties. The complaint arose from decisions of the courts of first and second instances in the Sverdlovsk region on the lawsuit of Mr Krylov against the regional ISP. The plaintiff demanded that the defendant remove remarks...

On 20 April 2013 the Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree effectively changing the composition of the country’s first DTT multiplex. (see IRIS 2011-7/41, IRIS 2009-10/25 and IRIS plus 2013-1). This multiplex will now no longer carry a regional channel and will be entirely federal, with the 10th slot being allocated to the TV company “TV Tsentr” (TV Center). TV Center is an open stock company with over 99 percent of the stock in the hands of the City Government of Moscow (which is legally not a municipality, but rather a subject of the Russian Federation, or a province), the chair of...