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At its plenary session of 8 February 2001, the State Duma of the Russian Federation considered the draft law on the amendments to Article 11 of the Russian Federation Law "On Advertising". The draft law, which was submitted to the State Duma by the Astrakhan Regional Representative Assembly, makes alterations to paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Russian Federation Law "On Advertising" (1995) by totally prohibiting the interruption of educational programs, radio shows and feature films by advertisements. In the current version of the Law, advertising during broadcasts of radio shows or feature films...

On 25 September 2000, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered a complaint that had been lodged regarding the Decree regulating the implementation on the so-called Operational-Investigative Activity on telephone, mobile, wireless connection and personal radio communication network (SORM), issued by the Ministry for Communication and Informatization (see IRIS 2000-8: 11). The complainant Pavel Neptunskiy asserts that under the Decree, neither service providers nor supervising bodies can check who is subject to eavesdropping and what is the volume of security services' activity in...

On 5 August this year, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed a new Act, adding two new paragraphs to Section 41 of the 1991 Zakon o sredstvach massovoj informazii (Mass Media Act), the second time this year that new prohibitions have been added to the Act (see IRIS 2000-7: 14). New paragraphs 3 and 4 of Section 41 of the Mass Media Act ban the dissemination in the mass media of information that identifies, directly or indirectly, a juvenile offender or victim of crime officially recognised as such during a criminal investigation or court proceedings. The only exception...

On 9 September 2000, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin approved the Doktrina informatsionnoi bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii (the national Doctrine of Informational Security), drafted by the Security Council. The Doctrine contains formal views on the aims, problems, principles and main directions for promoting data security in the Russian Federation. Certain provisions of the Doctrine concern telecommunications and law. The Doctrine suggests that the parliament discuss and adopt acts to achieve data security in the telecommunications sector. In particular, Parliament shall...

The passing on 28 March 2000 of the Russian Government's decree No. 265 "On Approval of the Statute on the Russian Federation's Ministry for Communications and Informatization" is a well-timed step to mark the culmination of the main stage of reforming the executive authority structure in the field of communications. The keynote of this reform has been, above all, the upgrading of the status of the federal department. In 1997, Russia's Ministry for Communications was transformed into the State Committee for Communications and Informatization and, later, into the State Committee for Telecommunications....