Not only Russian copyright, broadcast and digital law
One famous Russian writer once has said: the rigor of the Russian law is diminished by their disregard. It should be added at the end “at all levels”. In 2017 in Russia it has been adopted a law on online video services. It is very rigorous. For example, if Netflix would like to operate in Russia it has to receive governmental approval. But the situation is not simple for Russian legal system and very lucky for Netflix, YouTube and similar services.
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A new draft law is developing in order to provide the Russian Central Bank with authority to restrict access to certain web-sites in Russian without court order. The draft law is targeted at web-sites used for financial fraud. For Russian financial regulator it is irrelevant whether web-site is hosted or operated in Russia or overseas. Currently the draft law passes the interdepartmental consideration and the final version should be agreed near future.
Comments closedThis summer the group of deputies from Russian state duma proposed to decriminalize posting, re-posting, sharing or likes in social networks. The Russian ministry of communication (now it is Russian ministry of digital development, connectivity and mass communication) upholds this idea. The deputy of minister of communication said that criminal liability for re-posts and likes in social networks is to be overruled.
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Russian governmental body Ministry of communication (MinCom) has developed and proposed a new draft law – amendments to Russian law on information, its protection and informational technologies. These amendments aim to facilitate restriction of access to any web-site in Russia if such web-site contains information, justifying or reasoning extremism or terrorist activity.
Comments closedRussian internet company Mail.ru – the owner of popular Russian social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki – asked the Russian Supreme Court to provide legal definition for such terms like “post”, “re-post”, “sharing”, “share”, “like” etc. The company believes legal definitions could ensure objective consideration and assessment of criminal cases in courts in relation to persons accused of terrorism or extremism activity in internet.
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Yarovaya law is significant burden for Russian telecommunication companies. Under this law they are obliged to keep a lot of information, including communication between their subscribers. There is the law – so called Yarovaya law, but there are no rules, implementing this law. The Russian companies are in very strange position – they have to comply with Yarovaya law, but they can’t do this – there are no rules, prescribing how to do it under the law.
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When the Russian court decided the Telegram is to blocked in Russia, the Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor proceed to restrict access to this messenger in Russia. But the messenger did not intend to give up and most Russian media space witness the battle between Roskomandzor and Telegram. Telegram changed its IP addresses and Roskomnadzor blocked millions of them. Many web-sites were blocked, just because their IP address allegedly has been used by Telegram for circumvention of blocking.
Comments closedThe Russian popular social network VKontakte – Russian Facebook – has declared new changed in privacy settings for its users. New coming changes in privacy settings aim to protect users of Russian social network from unjustified prosecution for reposts and likes. The changes should be fundamental for recent years. The users should receive opportunity to shield the public availability of their personal profiles from everyone except friends or chosen person.
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In Russia new trend gathers pace – Russian enforcement authorities have special departments combating extremism. Officers from these departments are sitting all days long in Russian social networks, like Vkontake or odnoklassniki (classmates) and searching for extremist materials. Foreign social networks, like Facebook, are not so interesting for them for one simple reason – Russian social network provide all necessary information in order to prosecute the person.
Comments closedYarovaya law, adopted in Russia, is aimed to improve the protection of national security. This law obliges telecommunication companies to keep recorded communications between their subscribers (text, calls etc.). Telecommunication companies claimed this law caused high transaction and operational costs for them, but Russian governmental body – the ministry of communication – believed such costs would not be so high, they are acceptable.
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