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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....

On 25 July 2000 the Ministry for Communications and Informatizations ("Communications Ministry") issued a decree regulating implementation of the so-called System for Operational-Investigative Activity (SORM, by Russian acronym). These technical means enable security services to collect information from communications networks. The Decree allows access to the contents of personal communications in any form, including e-mail messages. The Decree was issued as part of enforcement steps for the Federal Statute Ob operativno-rozysknoi dejatelnosti (On Operational Investigation) of 1995 and other laws...

On 24 May 2000 the State Duma (Parliament of the Russian Federation) adopted by an overwhelming majority (363 votes for and 13 against) an Act adding a new paragraph to Article 4 of the 1991 Mass Media Act. On 7 June the members of the Sovjet Federazii (Federal Council of the Russian Federation) unanimously approved the Act, which was signed by President Putin on 22 June 2000. The new third paragraph of Article 4 of the Mass Media Act prohibits the distribution of the following types of information via the mass media and computer networks: information concerning the discovery, manufacture or use...