Russian Ministry of Communication (MinCom) provided Russian State Duma with its negative assessment of draft law on news aggregators. According to this assessment, restriction of news aggregators will decrease auditory of online mass media at least on one fourth. Requirements containing in draft law are impracticable and will cause expenditures from state budget. Draft law in its current version “can cause significant restriction of Russian news aggregators’ activity and in some cases even their shut-down”, believes Alexey Volin, deputy of Russian minister of communication.
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