Category: Digital

The stakeholders – mostly the companies who would be main subjects of proposed law – negatively assessed the law on autonomy of Russian internet. According to the assessment the provisions of law don’t coincide with declared aim to ensure the stability of Russian internet and Russian internet resources. The stakeholders believe the provisions of law would cause overloading of operators’ communication networks, network failures and significant increase in costs, including budgetary costs.

The Russian ministry of communication, Federal security service and ministry of trade have jointly proposed to oblige Russian communication companies to use only Russian equipment for execution of Yarovaya law. In other words, only equipment, produced in Russia, can be exploited in order to keep all users’ communications within certain period of time for enforcement purposes.

Russian legislators have introduced new draft law aiming to guarantee an absolute autonomy to Russian segment of internet. Under proposed draft law the Russian internet watchdog would receive broad authority. The main purpose and objective of law is protection of Russian internet from external threat. The draft law provides regulation for traffic routing and control over compliance with this regulation.