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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...

After lengthy delays, the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 has finally been enacted. The delays were mainly due to the large number of proposed amendments to the draft legislation that was published in 1999 (See IRIS 1999-5: 11). The Act implements various recent EC Directives and anticipates forthcoming ones. It also fulfils Ireland's international obligations as a signatory of the TRIPs Agreement 1994 and the WIPO Treaties of 1996. It is a complex and comprehensive piece of legislation, being over 200 pages long. New provisions in the Act include rental and lending rights, and copyright...

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...

Several daily newspapers published by PCM Uitgevers (PCM Publishers) have a web site on the Internet, which contains a selection of news reports and articles originating from their published newspapers. Each of these reports and articles has a title and the homepage of every newspaper contains a complete list of titles that are inserted on the web site. Eureka, a company that provides internet services, has a web site at "www.kranten.com" ("kranten" means newspapers). One of the web pages of this site contains the names of the daily newspapers and also a list (updated daily) of the titles of reports...