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On 8 December 2011 the Government of the Russian Federation adopted an ordinance that approved new rules on licensing television and radio broadcasting. This follows the entering into force on 10 November 2011 of the Statute “On amending some legal acts of the Russian Federation in order to improve legal regulation in the sphere of mass information” (see IRIS 2011-7/42), The rules set down that the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications remains the licensing body. This Service, under the Ministry of Communications and...

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Interparliamentary Assembly which is currently comprised of delegations from the parliaments of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine enacted on 16 May 2011 a Model Statute on the Basics of Internet Regulation (Модельный закон «Об основах регулирования Интернета»). It consists of 3 chapters with a total of 13 articles. The Act sets out principles and determines major directions of regulation of relations that have to do with the use of Internet, sets procedures for state support of its...

The Federal Assembly (parliament) of the Russian Federation has adopted the Statute “On amending some legal acts of the Russian Federation in order to improve legal regulation in the sphere of mass information” (О внесении изменений в отдельные законодательные акты Российской Федерации в связи с совершенствованием правового регулирования в сфере средств массовой информации). The Bill was introduced on 29 November 2010 by the chair of the parliamentary committee on the mass media, adopted in the first reading by the State Duma (lower chamber) on 22 February 2011, and in the 2nd and 3rd readings...

President Dmitry Medvedev of the Russian Federation signed on 12 May 2011 a decree amending his earlier decree of 24 June 2009 on must-carry TV and radio channels (see IRIS 2009-10/25). This act amends the list of the eight mandatory TV channels on all platforms (including the first multiplex of digital terrestrial television) as several of them have changed their names (and programme policies) since 2009. Channel Sport has become Rossiya-2 with gradually decreasing number of sports broadcasts at the expense of entertainment fare, channel Kultura was rebranded as Rossiya-K, and Russian Information...

President Dmitry Medvedev of the Russian Federation signed on 24 May 2011 a decree “On the Federal Service on Intellectual Property” (О Федеральной службе по интеллектуальной собственности). In order to streamline the structure of the Government the decree renames the existing Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks into the Federal Service on Intellectual Property, as well as adding to it the current powers of the Ministry of Justice as regards to legal protection of the state interests in the civil and economic transactions of the results of research and technological...