Main article: Censorship (control) on the Internet. Experience of Russia
2024
Roskomnadzor has developed a procedure for maintaining a register of bloggers with 10 thousand subscribers
In September 2024, it became known that Roskomnadzor (RKN) developed a procedure for maintaining a register of personal pages in social networks and instant messengers, which have an audience of more than 10 thousand users. This step became part of the implementation of the law signed by the President of Russia on August 8, 2024, which obliges the owners of such pages to undergo mandatory verification and provide data about themselves to the register. The register will begin to function on November 1, 2024, which will allow state bodies to control the activities of large bloggers and channel owners in instant messengers.
According to Kommersant, the following data will be included in the register: for individuals - last name, first name, patronymic and country of residence (for foreign citizens), for legal entities - the name of the organization, organizational and legal form, registration number and country of registration, and for individual entrepreneurs - last name, first name, patronymic and registration number. Also, users will be required to provide phone numbers, email addresses and the IP address of the device from which the page was registered.
ILV has provided that users will be able to transfer data to the register through a special form on the agency's website or by e-mail. After submitting the information, Roskomnadzor will check their reliability within seven days and decide on the inclusion of the page in the register. If any data is changed, users are required to notify the department. Failure to comply with these requirements can lead to sanctions, including a ban on advertising and collecting donations on such pages.
The law also prohibits the publication of content on pages not included in the registry. This means that from the beginning of November 2024, owners of social networks and instant messengers will have to block any publications from pages that have not passed verification. This innovation is aimed at strengthening control over the activities of large bloggers and channels, as well as to combat fake accounts and inaccurate information on the Internet.[1]
Owners of large channels will be able to transmit information about themselves to the RKN through "Public services"
The State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications supported the amendment on the obligation of channel owners in instant messengers and social networks with an audience of more than 10 thousand people to report information about themselves to Roskomnadzor. The corresponding amendments were made to the second reading of the bill aimed at protecting citizens of the Russian Federation from crimes using mobile communications. This was announced on July 30, 2024 by the press service of Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications, citing a statement by Alexander Khinshtein.
 | Amendments to the adoption are recommended. We introduce requirements for owners and pages on social networks. Now the owners of channels with an audience of 10 thousand or more will be required to submit information about themselves to Roskomnadzor in the order and composition that the government will establish, - said Alexander Khinshtein. |  |
Roskomnadzor will keep a list of such channels in messengers. In unregistered channels, advertising will be prohibited, and messages from such a channel cannot be reposted.
At the same time, the very form through which the owners of large channels in instant messengers and social networks will have to transmit information about themselves to Roskomnadzor should appear on the Public services portal, said Anton Nemkin.
| | In fact, the procedure will be as simple as possible. The channel owner will only need to transfer general information about himself and the main direction of the channel. At the same time, it will be possible to do this through the Public services portal - it is planned to place a special form there, which can be filled out in just a few minutes. Let me remind you that this is not a registration with the department, but a notification from the regulator that the account owner is distributing information. I see no reason why the bona fide owners of large accounts and channels followed by users should be frightening, the deputy said. | |
At the same time, information about the owners of the channels will not appear in the public field, Nemkin added.
| | Therefore, it will be possible to check whether the channel has fulfilled the new requirements of the law through a special service. This, for example, is important for advertisers who will be banned from posting their advertising integrations in violating channels. With the help of the system, they will be able to check whether the channel behaves in good faith or not and already decide on advertising without risk. It is not profitable for the channels themselves to ignore this requirement: the bill provides that Russian companies and citizens will be able to advertise only in channels that have transmitted information about themselves. Therefore, here we are talking primarily about the economic motivation of the channels, to disclose information about their owners, - said the deputy. | |
These norms, first of all, should increase the responsibility of those who disseminate information through their channels in instant messengers and social networks to the audience, Nemkin said.
| | Information disseminated without the use of media should include reliable information about its owner or distributor in a form and volume sufficient to identify it. This requirement applies to personal pages of users of social networks, but in most cases it is not fulfilled. This is what cybercriminals use. Fakes are distributed precisely from anonymous accounts or using anonymous accounts, which complicates the ability to determine the authorship of such news. At the same time, the total number of copies of fake news distributed by anonymous people on social networks and instant messengers in Russia by the end of 2024 may reach more than 15 million. Of course, as early as July 2024, there are those who stubbornly refuse to work in accordance with the requirements of Russian law, and even fines cannot stop them. For example, foreign platforms have already been fined more than 9 million rubles since the beginning of 2024 for not removing prohibited materials. In total, Roskomnadzor imposed 147 administrative fines worth more than 35 billion rubles on large Internet companies for non-removal of prohibited content from 2021. Fines do not always work. Therefore, in the case of those who refuse to transfer data about themselves to Roskomnadzor, there will be bans that will hit their economic activities, the deputy said. | |
Anonymity on the Internet, first of all, harms law-abiding users, the parliamentarian is sure. {{quote 'They are the target of all illegal actions by anonymous people. The importance of digital services and the value of digital assets are so high that anonymity makes a law-abiding citizen easy prey for intruders. Twenty years ago, the Internet was almost completely anonymous. But primarily because it was a toy for most. And what happened on the Internet remained there. In modern realities, when fraudsters, fakes, cyberbullying, extremism and other phenomena surround us on the network, this is especially dangerous. Anonymity gives freedom from responsibility to the law to one, and makes others defenseless. Therefore, de-anonymization on the Internet is important for the common good of everyone who uses the Internet for honest and decent purposes - communication, entertainment and obtaining new knowledge. The first progress in this direction is already there - I am sure they will play a large role in the formation of a safe and comfortable digital space for citizens, the deputy concluded. }}
Roskomnadzor told how many VPNs are blocked in Russia
Roskomnadzor for April 2024 blocks about 150 VPN services, the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin said on April 24, 2024, according to Evgenia Zaytseva, head of the electronic communications control and supervision department of Roskomnadzor. Read more here.
Roskomnadzor will restrict Google, OpenAI and Apple access to information on Russian sites
In early May 2024, it became known that the Center for Monitoring and Management of the Public Communications Network (CMU SSOP) as part of Roskomnadzor determined recommendations for setting restrictions on access of search bots to information on Russian sites. We are talking about foreign systems, including search services Google (Googlebot),, OpenAI GPTBot Apple Bot, etc.
According to the Kommersant newspaper, a letter of recommendations was sent to companies from the registry of hosting providers. As of April 2024, 428 companies are on this list. They "need to analyze the risks in their area of responsibility and, if they are found, apply the rules for blocking the collection of information by search bots."
It is assumed that the new requirements will help prevent the collection of data on critical vulnerabilities of Russian resources, as well as eliminate the possibility of indexing data from Russians and analyzing the collected information. The DSM SSOP letter contains a list of identifiers (User-agent) by which you can distinguish malicious robots and vulnerability scanners (642 identifiers). Kommersant notes that the list sent by Roskomnadzor to providers coincides with a publicly available list published on the GitHub service.
The general director of the hosting provider RUVDSNikita Tsaplin admits that in the future the recommendations of Roskomnadzor may become requirements. However, market participants talk about potential problems. The fact is that the list of identifiers given in the letter is "very large, and their blocking can affect the stability of IT systems." It is noted that the blocking will especially affect companies operating in the CIS countries, where Google's position is higher than the Yandex search engine.
As Tsaplin says, for large companies this is a serious risk, especially given the competition for traffic: if part of it leaves Google, then the business will have to compensate for the share of transitions to sites through available search engines.[2]
Roskomnadzor has already blocked 82 resources that advertised VPN
From March 1, 2024, Roskomnadzor began extrajudicial restrictions on access to information on the Web, which advertises or popularizes means of bypassing access blocks to illegal content. As a result, in the period from March 1 to March 31, Roskomnadzor sent 628 notifications to site owners demanding to remove such illegal content. At the same time, from 546 Internet pages, resource owners promptly independently deleted prohibited materials. This was announced on April 3, 2024 by the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin. Read more here.
The Cabinet of Ministers supported the bill on the right of the RKN to introduce blocking of "mirrors" of prohibited sites
The Russian government supported, taking into account the comments, the bill on the transfer of powers to Roskomnadzor to make decisions on blocking the "mirrors" of prohibited resources, is noted in the document quoted by TASS. This was reported on March 26, 2024 by the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin.
The bill was submitted to the State Duma in January. Changes are proposed to be made to the law "On, and on information information technology." information protection According to the current standards, when detecting "mirrors" of prohibited sites, the federal executive authorities or copyright holders of information apply to, Ministry of Digital Development where within 24 hours they must make a motivated decision to recognize the site as a "mirror" and send it to the site owner and Roskomnadzor. Further, the ILV must contact, providers hosting operators communications and operators of search engines within 24 hours, who must also restrict access to the "mirror" during the day and stop issuing information about it in search engines.
According to the bill, after the entry into force of the proposed amendments, the motivated decision to recognize the site as a "mirror" will be made by Roskomnadzor. According to the authors of the initiative, this approach will reduce the process of restricting access to "mirrors" to two days.
At the same time, the Cabinet indicated that information on reducing the blocking process to two days should be clarified, since the provisions of the bill provide for a reduction in time costs during interdepartmental cooperation, and not the process of restricting access itself. The government also proposed to adjust the notification, which, according to the initiative, the ILV will send to the owners of the "mirrors," and indicate there information about the motivated decision made to recognize the resource as a copy of the blocked site.
| | Accordingly, search engines operators operating in the Russian segment of the Internet, but stopped distributing advertising aimed at attracting the attention of consumers located in the Russian Federation, do not fall under the above requirements of federal law, - indicated in the explanatory note to the document. | |
The scale of the problem of the spread of pirated sites is confirmed by the statistics of Roskomnadzor: the department has blocked almost 25 thousand "mirrors" of pirated resources for 2022 and 2023, said Anton Nemkin.
| | For the failure to remove the pirate content , Roskomnadzor also blocks resources - for example, in 2022, access to more than 114.8 thousand materials was limited, and in 2023 - to more than 228 thousand. Once a week, on average, a large pirate resource creates a new "mirror" of the blocked site. For this, they use those hostings belonging to - American IT compublies. Therefore, the pursuit of "pirates" on the network is more reminiscent of a children's game of "hide and seek," but pirates are always one step ahead. It's absolutely time to change the situation, "he said. | |
Resource owners are trying to fight pirated content on their own - in 2022 and 2023 they removed a total of more than a million such materials. In addition, in 2018, copyright holders and search engines operators signed a memorandum of cooperation in the protection of exclusive rights in the digital era. The document provides for direct interaction of its participants on the removal of links to illegal content from search results. During its action, almost 180 million links were removed from search results.
2023
Almost 700 thousand prohibited materials are blocked on the network
Roskomnadzor in 2023 blocked more than 670 thousand prohibited materials, sites and their individual pages. Of these: 558 thousand Internet pages were blocked or deleted on the basis of decisions of authorized state authorities, the requirements of the Prosecutor General's Office and court decisions, another 112.2 thousand - promptly, without being entered into the register, with the participation of social networks and Internet sites. This was announced on January 26, 2024 by the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin.
At the same time, the number of fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation almost halved. If in 2022 more than 129 thousand such materials were blocked, then in 2023 - about 73 thousand.
The number also significantly decreased suicide content - in 2023, 36.6 thousand such materials were blocked or removed against 62.4 thousand in 2022.
In addition, the department blocked or removed 84.7 thousand materials from the nursery pornography (68.4 thousand materials in 2022), 134 thousand materials pro-narcotic with content (94.3 thousand in 2022), 113 thousand - information with about gambling (84.1 thousand in 2022), 6.9 thousand - with information about illegal (to trade alcohol also in 2022) and 35.3 thousand - with information about the illegal sale of drugs (21.8 thousand materials in 2022).
The ILV also limited access to 28 thousand materials that involved minors in illegal actions against 20.7 thousand such materials in 2022.
Looking at these figures, you can clearly see how much illegal content surrounds citizens on the network, said Anton Nemkin.
| | Therefore, once again, I strongly recommend that you carefully double-check in official sources and verified media any information that you see on the network. And if they themselves noticed fakes or prohibited content, try to immediately notify Roskomnadzor or the administration of social networks and resources about this. Unlike Western platforms, feedback works very well on domestic platforms, since it is important for them to protect users from malicious information, he said. | |
| | People should be able to quickly and effectively complain to Roskomnadzor and other departments about prohibited content on the network in order to quickly verify and block it. At the same time, the process of identifying such materials is also being improved by putting into operation special systems of Roskomnadzor. For example, the development of the Vepr information system, which is designed to identify potential points of tension in the network that can develop into information threats, has been going on since 2022, and has already been commissioned in January 2024. "Vepr" together with the automated system "Okulus" is included in the unified system for monitoring the information space. At the same time, "Okulus" reveals violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation in images and video materials, it has also already been launched in Russia. The developers plan in the future to ensure that the system detects prohibited materials in complex handwritten texts and drawn content, - said the parliamentarian. | |
In 2022, on the basis of the requirements of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, 102,627 Internet resources with fakes were removed and blocked, including on the progress of a special military operation in Ukraine. In 2021, there were 7,203 such resources, in 2020 - 1,525, in 2019 - 311. At the same time, visual content is most often used to influence users.
The Ministry of Digital Development will allow Roskomnadzor to forcibly include sites in the register, the participants of which must disclose user data to the FSB
At the end of December 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation published a draft resolution providing for the introduction of a new mechanism for forming a register of information dissemination organizers (ARI). The agency proposes to grant Roskomnadzor the right to forcibly include certain sites in the specified list.
In ARI, any site that provides the ability to exchange messages between users can formally be recognized. Resources included in the ARI register are obliged to store user correspondence for six months, transfer data to the FSB and install equipment that ensures the operation of the operational-search measures system (SORM). Inclusion in the register can take place both on a voluntary basis and at the request of Roskomnadzor. Violators of the requirements face fines in the amount of up to 6 million rubles. According to the Kommersant newspaper, as of the beginning of January 2024, 606 sites were listed in the register.
In accordance with the new rules, Roskomnadzor will be able to forcibly enter the site into the ARI register if it has a function of exchanging messages between users, and the owner twice did not fulfill the service's requirement to enter the list voluntarily. The Ministry of Digital Development explains that we are talking about the re-issuance of a decision on an administrative offense. These measures are designed to "increase the effectiveness of the current mechanism for introducing companies into the ARI."
Olga Zakharova, head of the practice of protecting personal data at the DRC law firm, notes that after the introduction of the new mechanism, Roskomnadzor will have a legal basis for forcing the entry of violating sites into the register. At the same time, the changes will not affect large participants in the Internet market, since they are already included in the list.
| | The draft resolution continues to regulate the digital space, aimed at de-anonymizing the Internet, says Zakharova.[3] | |
Roskomnadzor will check and block pirated resources with LGBT propaganda
Roskomnadzor will check for the content of LGBT propaganda videos not only on legal sites, but also on pirated resources. To do this, the department agreed on interaction with the Media Communication Union and content copyright holders. This was announced on November 22, 2023 by the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin.
The mechanism that they agreed to implement will combine the information of two registers: the Unified Register of Prohibited Materials of the RKN and the register, which, within the framework of the anti-piracy memorandum, is maintained by the ISS, in which legal video services place links to pirated content.
| | The Media Communication Union will ensure the transfer of an array of links to pirated resources, where materials with LGBT propaganda are distributed. In turn, Roskomnadzor will analyze the transmitted links, if illegal content is detected, it will enter them into the Unified Register of Prohibited Materials and restrict access to them, the agency said in a statement quoted by TASS. | |
The ISS also said that such interaction will help increase the effectiveness of combating pirated resources that not only violate copyright and related rights, but also post content that does not meet current regulatory requirements.
The anti-piracy memorandum appeared in 2018 - then it was concluded by copyright holders and operators for direct interaction on the removal of links to illegal content and domains of copyright violators from search results, recalls Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications.
{{quote 'Over the years of the memorandum's existence, more than 100 million links to content posted on the network by pirates have already been removed from Yandex search results. However, this is practically an endless process, because pirates recreate these links all the time. There are still many millions of links to be removed for November 2023, but this tool is actually a catch-up game - we are always one step behind the Pirates, following them in their tracks. Despite the presence of anti-piracy tools and their active use, over the past two years, two-thirds of film views in Russia have been pirated resources. Therefore, the Internet Video Association proposed to develop a bill that would give the executive authorities the right to extrajudicial blocking of pirated sites on formal grounds not related to copyright protection. The point of support should be a set of requirements that owners of audiovisual services are required to fulfill, - said the deputy. }}
| | At the same time, Roskomnadzor includes the resource in the register only if the functionality of the site is the organization of access to video, as well as if its audience in the Russian Federation exceeds the threshold of 100,000 visitors per day. This means that tens of thousands of sites remain in the black and gray zone. This threshold must be removed and regulated by everyone. And all anonymous sites need to be blocked, - concluded the parliamentarian. | |
Roskomnadzor forbade search engines to find sites of the largest foreign hosting sites
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) has banned search engines from finding sites of the largest foreign hosting sites. The press service of the department announced this at the end of October 2023.
| | Due to the fact that some foreign providers do not fulfill their duties under the law on "landing," Roskomnadzor decided to take additional measures. A number of foreign hosting providers were banned from searching for information about the sites of these companies, the service said in a statement. | |
It is noted that measures have been taken in relation to the following companies:
- Hetzner Online;
- Network Solutions;
- WPEngine;
- HostGator.com;
- Ionos;
- DreamHost;
- Amazon Web Services;
- GoDaddy.com;
- Bluehost;
- Kamatera;
- DigitalOcean.
These companies, according to Roskomnadzor, did not fulfill the duties provided for by Article 5 of the law on "landing," namely:
- register a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website;
- place a feedback form for Russian citizens and organizations;
- establish an authorized representative office in Russia.
In relation to the mentioned hosting providers, a "ban on searching for information about the sites of these companies" has been introduced. This is the first time that Russia the law on the "landing" of Internet companies introduces a ban on search results, notes Kommersant"."
The publication recalls that "coercion measures" are chosen at the discretion of Roskomnadzor from among those prescribed in the law on "landing" (No. 236-FZ of July 1, 2021) - up to blocking the site and banning payments to companies. The only foreign hoster who was marked as an "offender" in September, but now they have not been excluded from search results,[4]
The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation explained to companies how to remove restrictions on the use of VPN
The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation explained to companies how to remove restrictions on the use of VPN. The agency issued the corresponding instructions on October 17, 2023 in its Telegram channel. Read more here.
The law on the rules for the use of recommendation algorithms on the Internet came into force
On October 1, 2023, legislative amendments came into force, according to which owners of Internet resources using advisory technologies are required to warn about their use, as well as publish the rules for their use. The law also gives Roskomnadzor the right to request information about their application from site owners who violate the legislation on the use of recommendation algorithms. Read more here.
Roskomnadzor called the criteria for blocking materials with ways to access prohibited information
Roskomnadzor In developed criteria for evaluating materials information with about ways to bypass locks, according to which access to them will be limited in the territory. Russia The draft of the relevant order was published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts, it may enter into force on March 1, 2024. "This order comes into force on March 1, 2024 and is valid until September 1, 2029," the document says. This was announced on September 20, 2023 by the press service of the deputy. State Duma of the Russian Federation Anton Nemkin
The project amends the order of Roskomnadzor dated February 27, 2022 No. 25, which lists the criteria for entering materials on the Internet into the Unified Register of Prohibited Information. If such materials are not promptly removed, access to them is limited.
According to the order, there will be seven criteria. In particular, the reason for blocking may be "the presence of information aimed at convincing of the attractiveness of using methods for providing access to information resources and (or) information telecommunication networks, access to which is limited in the territory" and RUSSIAN FEDERATION"the presence of information justifying the merits" of using such methods, the draft document says. The criteria for entering into the registry will also be the presence of information that encourages the use of methods and methods for ensuring access to blocked resources, or information containing an offer to acquire access to blocked resources or programs COMPUTER for which this is used.
At the end of July 2023, the President of the Russian Federation signed a law that establishes that information on ways to bypass the blocking of information resources established in the Russian Federation provided on sites will become the basis for entering such a site or domain into the Unified Register of Prohibited Information of Roskomnadzor. At the same time, this rule does not prohibit the use of VPNs themselves, although it helps to reduce their popularity, the authors of the amendments noted.
| | However, all this turns out to be an empty sound. As practice shows, advertisers do not even think about the consequences of Russians who want to bypass the blocking - their task is to present the same VPN services in a favorable light. They bear no responsibility for the protection of your personal data, and the risks remain, and quite large. Users should understand that the fight against sites that help bypass locks is not an attempt to limit them in anything, but a desire to protect them from threats - including leaked personal data, the number of which is still too large, the parliamentarian added. | |
Fines for foreign IT sites for the distribution of illegal content exceeded 21 billion rubles
Roskomnadzor cited figures to combat the spread of prohibited content on the network, as well as the influence of unwanted organizations and foreign agents. At the same time, foreign IT platforms play a significant role in the distribution of illegal content, the amount of fines imposed on them has already exceeded 21 billion rubles. This was announced on September 12, 2023 by the press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin.
| | No matter how hard we try to hold them accountable, there is practically no reaction. And this is especially upsetting in the light of the fact that our departments put forward quite logical and reasonable requirements - all we are fighting for is a comfortable digital space for Russians, where fakes and other destructive ones do not wait for them at every step. At the same time, for some reason, they prefer to ignore the fact that hatred can be incited on their platforms, information from the official channels of another state can be blocked, and in general, an information vacuum with strange content is created. It seems that they absolutely do not care about the interests of users. This approach is not close to us in Russia, so courts on such a topic will continue in the near future, and the amount of fines will grow, the deputy said. | |
Roskomnadzor also stressed that attempts are regularly made against Russia to destabilize the situation in the country, including by disseminating fake information about a special military operation. The agency promptly takes measures to identify and neutralize Internet resources that conduct such activities in the Russian information field.
Special attention is paid to the elimination of the destabilizing influence on the Russian infopolis of undesirable organizations and foreign agents. So, in 2022-2023, Roskomnadzor blocked more than 2 thousand sites and individual materials of undesirable organizations, and fines of more than 233 million rubles were imposed on foreign agents for the lack of labeling of the materials distributed by them.
The number of sites blocked in Russia increased year-on-year by 85%
According to, in to data Roskomnadzor the first half of 2023 Russia , over 885 thousand sites with prohibited by law were blocked or deleted information in. This is 85% more than in the same period in 2022, "" reported. Kommersant The number of blocked or deleted individual materials on the network also increased - to 1.1 million, which is 10% more than in the entire 2022. This became known on September 7, 2023.
The agency maintains a register of blocked sites based on the decisions of courts and bodies that have the right to demand pre-trial blocking -,,, etc. Sites and State Offices of Public Prosecutor FTS Rosmolodezh pages extremist with information of nature, pornography, information about,, drugs pirated content fraudulent sites and resources of persons recognized as Ministry of Justice Russia foreign agents may be subject to extrajudicial blocking.
In 2022, another reason for blocking appeared - the dissemination of unreliable or defamatory information about the Russian army.
Roskomnadzor also conducts off-register blocking through technical means to counter threats established by telecom operators under the law on the "sovereign Internet." With their help, the department can block connections to public VPN services and to Tor network nodes, which allow you to bypass restrictions on access to sites.
The Ministry of Digital Development reported that in 2022 they launched their anti-phishing system, which blocks fraudulent sites trying to obtain personal data or money from users. Over the entire period of operation of the system, more than 90 thousand such sites were blocked[5]
Methods of bypassing blocking in the network may become a reason for entering the site into the register of Roskomnadzor
The Ministry of Digital Development proposes to empower Roskomnadzor to restrict access to resources that talk about ways to bypass blocking in Russia. The corresponding draft decree of the government of the Russian Federation has already been published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts for public discussion, which will last until mid-September 2023. About this press service of the State Duma deputy RFAnton Nemkin
| | The draft resolution proposes to empower the Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media with the authority to make decisions that are the grounds for including information about sites on the network in the Unified Register of Prohibited Information "Internet," which contains information on methods, methods of providing access to information resources, access to which is limited on the territory of the Russian Federation, is indicated in the explanatory note to the document. | |
At the same time, in order to implement such changes, it is necessary to amend the criteria for evaluating materials and information on which Roskomnadzor relies when making decisions on entering sites into the Unified Register of Prohibited Information, the Ministry of Digital Development added. Earlier, at the end of December 2022, they had already undergone changes - then the number of grounds for entering sites or pages of sites in the register included "LGBT propaganda," as well as "information promoting pedophilia or gender change."
| | Those resources, access to which is limited on the territory of our country, pose an immediate threat to Russians, as they spread fakes and destructive. For those who are trying to bypass the appearance of such content in the digital space, punishment should be provided - so in addition to blocking resources, it may also be worth discussing the introduction of fines for the owners of those sites that decided to talk about ways to bypass blocking on the network. The VPN services themselves are not directly affected by the initiative of the Ministry of Digital Development, but they must clearly understand that if they provide citizens with access to blocked resources, they themselves are also threatened with sanctions from Roskomnadzor, the deputy said. | |
Earlier, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy approved amendments to the legislation, according to which information on ways to bypass the blocking of information resources established in the Russian Federation, provided on Internet sites, will become the basis for entering such a site or domain into the Unified Register of Prohibited Information of Roskomnadzor. Amendments were made to the second reading of the bill, which limits the share of foreign ownership of the news aggregator in the Russian Federation, the document was adopted in the first reading in December 2018. Their author is Anton Gorelkin, deputy head of the information policy committee.
Roskomandzor will use sovereign Runet equipment to block anonymization services
Roskomnadzor will use the equipment of technical means of countering threats (TSPU), which is used within the framework of the sovereign Runet, to block anonymization services. This became known at the end of March 2023.
As Kommersant writes with reference to the corresponding draft government decree developed by Roskomandzor, it is planned to include sites that allow anonymizing Internet users among the threats that are prescribed to be filtered through TSPU. In an explanatory note, Roskomnadzor clarifies that these include services that allow you to register on sites and instant messengers using a virtual phone number. If the government passes the amendments, they will come into force on March 1, 2024.
By March 2023, you can register a mobile phone number, including in popular instant messengers that position themselves as protected - Telegram and Signal. Telegram from December 2022 allows you to register for virtual numbers bought for cryptocurrency on the Fragment service founded by Pavel Durov.
Messengers are required to identify users in Russia. This is usually done when registering with a mobile phone number that cannot be issued anonymously in our country. But Roskomnadzor believes that access to sites that allow registration through virtual numbers "contributes to the use of communication services for illegal purposes" and violates the security of the Internet in Russia.
Evgeny Kravchenko, an expert at the DRC law firm, said in an interview with the publication that not only platforms for the sale of virtual numbers can be blocked.
| | By law, the concept of an information system is somewhat broader, so any means of anonymization can potentially be filtered. " In Russia, it is not yet forbidden to use such services, however, "if you commit an offense through a virtual number or VPN and if you manage to correlate you and the service, then, obviously, there will be a threat of punishment, he said[6] | |
Roskomnadzor created a system for neutralizing information bombs on the Internet
On February 20, 2023, it became known about the creation of the Vepr information bomb detection system for the Main Radio Frequency Center (GRCC) subordinate to Roskomnadzor. The platform was developed by the St. Petersburg IT company Neobit, which has been under US sanctions since 2021. Read more here.
2022
Roskomnadzor ordered HeadHunter to collect and provide all information at the request of the FSB
In December 2022, it became known that Roskomnadzor he had included information Internet a job search service in the register of distribution organizers in (ARI). HeadHunter This means that the Internet recruiter will have to share the user with, data as FSB required. Spring Law More. here
FAS and Roskomnadzor divided the areas of responsibility for marking advertising on the Internet
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and Roskomnadzor divided the areas of responsibility for labeling advertising on the Internet. This was announced on November 17, 2022 in the FAS Telegram channel. Read more here.
YouTube removed 105 thousand prohibited materials at the request of Roskomnadzor
On July 19, 2022, Roskomnadzor announced the removal of more than 105 thousand prohibited materials on YouTube at the request of the department. At the same time, video hosting still stores a large amount of content prohibited in Russia. Read more here.
Roskomnadzor declared VPN a threat and began to massively block services
In early June 2022, interruptions began in the work of popular VPN services (NordVPN, Lantern, Outline VPN, etc.) in Russia. Involvement in this was confirmed in: Roskomnadzor the structure Main Radio Frequency Center (GRCC) limits the work of VPN services in Russia that "violate Russian law." More. here
Roskomnadzor blocks social networks Facebook and Twitter amid special operation in Russia in Ukraine
Roskomnadzor decided to block access to Twitter and Facebook social networks in Russia, the agency said on March 4, 2022 against the backdrop of a special operation by Russia in Ukraine.
Roskomnadzor demanded that the media use only Russian data on the operation in Ukraine and threatened to block
On February 24, 2022, Roskomnadzor demanded that the media use only Russian data on the military operation in Ukraine and threatened to block. The department noted an increase in the number of publications on this topic on the Internet with "unverified and inaccurate information."
| | Roskomnadzor informs the media, information resources that when preparing their materials and publications regarding a special operation in connection with the situation in the Luhansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic, they are obliged to use information and data received by them only from official Russian sources, the service said. | |
As recalled in Roskomnadzor, for the dissemination of false information, Russian legislation provides for administrative liability in the form of a fine of up to 5 million rubles, as well as the immediate blocking of fake materials.
According to the Krasnoyarsk edition of Prospekt Mira, it was forced to remove the news with the headline "The media report explosions in cities and the capital of Ukraine" at the request of Roskomnadzor. The regulator's letter says that the news "contains false reports of acts of terrorism or other unreliable socially significant information disseminated under the guise of reliable messages, which creates a threat of harm to life and (or) the health of citizens, property, the threat of mass disturbance of public order and (or) public safety or the threat of interfering with the functioning or termination of life support facilities, transport or social infrastructure, credit institutions, power facilities, industry or communications[7]
A special military operation in Donbass began on February 24, 2022. President Vladimir Putin explained its implementation by the need to stop the "genocide" of the civilian population of the region by Kyiv. Ukraine accused Russia of starting a war, severed diplomatic relations with it and imposed martial law in the country.
2021
Roskomnadzor forced Facebook to remove prohibited content
In early October 2021, Roskomnadzor announced that Facebook had fulfilled the agency's requirement to remove content banned in the Russian Federation. However, the world's largest social network still faces a fine. Read more here.
Russian banks needed automated access to prohibited sites
Roskomnadzor will give Russian banks access to child porn, pro sites drugs and extremism. This became known on September 7, 2021.
They need this to comply with amendments to the "anti-money laundering" law prohibiting them from serving persons associated with such resources. Roskomnadzor expressed its readiness to provide them with such access, but so far everything rests on Russian legislation.
Innovations in the "anti-money laundering" law (115-FZ "On counteraction, and legalization of proceeds from crime") are to financing terrorism a ban on cooperation with all credit organizations with persons who provide certain services through sites from the Unified Register of Prohibited Information. In other words, banks will deny such customers any transactions with money and other property.
The amendments to the "anti-money laundering" law that came into force forced banks to manually check all potential customers for communication with websites prohibited in the country. Bank employees must now enter domain names or links in the search bar every time, and then confirm their actions by entering a special verification code.
Such an algorithm takes a lot of time and effort from bank employees, said Elena Sorvina, head of the corporate business development center of the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Representatives of Rosfinmonitoring reported that domestic banks really face various difficulties when working with the register of prohibited sites. They expressed a desire to automate access to it, Representatives of Rosfinmonitoring also added that the service sent a request to Roskomnadzor to automate the process of interaction with a single register of prohibited sites.
Banks often use various VPN services to access blocked sites. But they may also lose this opportunity. For, at to data RBC the end of August 2021, the Central Bank sent Russian banks warnings about the likely very quick blocking of VPN services Psiphon, Tunnelbear, Thunder and Redshield. Two months before that Russia , Opera VPN and VyprVPN blocking began.
In its letter, the regulator asked financial organizations to list the VPN services used in their work, indicating that the answer should be provided no later than September 2, 2021. In addition to the list of services, it should contain information about why banks use certain VPNs.
| | We believe that the legislation should clearly define the legal grounds for organizations to apply financial to Roskomnadzor for access to, information contained in the register. It is necessary to develop a special mechanism for verifying both the requested data and the banking structures themselves. We are ready to take part in this work together with the authorities with the direct participation of the financial organizations themselves, - representatives of the regulator[8] told the publication[9] | |
Roskomnadzor will close the possibility of bypassing blocking through foreign Internet protocols
On September 10, 2021, it became known about the decision of Roskomnadzor to close the possibility of bypassing blocking through foreign Internet protocols that hide the name of the site.
According to Kommersant"," in early September 2021, state-owned companies received letters from Roskomnadzor with a request to check whether corporate, technological networks and applications use protocols that hide the enciphering name of the site. In particular, we are talking about DNS-, servers Google(Cloudflare provides protection for web portals) and the DoH service, which is also being implemented by Mozilla Google. For the stable operation of networks, Roskomnadzor offered companies until September 9 to connect to the DNS services of Russian telecom operators or NSDI.
The DNS server allows you to determine the IP address of a node on the Internet by its domain name, and DoH is used to encrypt the request that the user's device sends to the provider's DNS server to open the desired site.
According to IT expert Artem Ionov, the ILV tested the blocking of protocols on the evening of September 8, 2021. He used TSPU equipment (technical means of countering threats) at the sites of some large providers and blocked public DNS services Google and Cloudflare. The agency, without warning, closed access to foreign publicly available free public DNS servers for an hour, including 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8.
The struggle of Roskomnadzor with virtual private networks () VPN for "" sovereign runet can cause interruptions in access to many Internet resources implicitly associated with blocked domain name servers (DNS), said Mikhail Internet Klimarev, executive director of the Defense Society, in his Telegram ZaTelecom channel. According to the specialist, public DNS-Google servers , Cloudflare and, Cisco which provide about 75% of available Internet resources in the country, were blocked.[10]
Facebook fine of 6 million rubles for refusing to delete content
In July 2021, the World Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow fined Facebook another 6 million rubles for refusing to remove content prohibited by Russian law. As a result, the total amount of penalties from the world's largest social network in the Russian Federation since the beginning of 2021 has reached 49 million rubles.
Facebook was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part Two of Article 13.41 ("failure by the owner of the site or the owner of an information resource in the information and telecommunication network" Internet "of information or an Internet page if the obligation to remove such information, the Internet page is provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation). According to the legislation in force by July 2021, if the Internet platform, after notification from the department, has not limited access to prohibited information, then it can be punished in the amount of 800 thousand to 4 million rubles. In case of repeated violation, the penalty is increased to one tenth of the total amount of annual revenue.
Telegram fine of 11 million rubles for refusing to remove content prohibited in Russia
On July 22, 2021, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Telegram 11 million rubles for refusing to remove content prohibited by Russian law. The total amount of fines issued to the messenger in recent months amounted to 26 million rubles.
Fines in the amount of 5, 4 and 2 million rubles in relation to Telegram were issued under three similar protocols. The company was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part Two of Article 13.41 (Failure by the owner of the site or the owner of an information resource in the information and telecommunication network "Internet" of information or an Internet page if the obligation to remove such information is provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation). The decision was made by the magistrate of the judicial district No. 422. Telegram Messenger, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press secretary of the Tagansky District Court Zulfiya Gurinchuk.
Twitter fine of 5.5 million rubles for refusing to remove prohibited content
On July 22, 2021, the World Court of the Tagansky District of Moscow fined Twitter another 5.5 million rubles for refusing to remove content that is prohibited in Russia.
According TASS Information Agency of Russia to the press service of the court, the American social network was found guilty of two administrative offenses under paragraph 2 of Art. 13.41 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. The fine for each administrative case on the basis of the protocol Roskomnadzor in this case can be from 800 thousand to 4 million rubles. In the case of Twitter, fines in each case amounted to 3 and 2.5 million rubles.
Roskomnadzor will create a unified system for registering advertising on the Internet
The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the third reading a number of bills regulating the Internet sphere. This became known on June 18, 2021. In particular, at a plenary meeting on June 17, 2021, in the third reading, a bill was adopted that gives Roskomnadzor the authority to create and maintain a unified advertising accounting system on the Internet from September 1, 2022. Read more here.
Roskomnadzor began blocking VPN services
On June 17, 2021, it became known that Roskomnadzor it had begun restrictive measures against VyprVPN and VPN Opera VPN services (owned by Chinesethe Norwegian Opera). The agency explains this by the fact that data services are used to access prohibited Russia information child pornography, suicidal, pro-drug and similar prohibited. content
Opera decided to suspend support for VPN services in its browsers in Russia in the form in which it turned out to be earlier, Yulia Shinzelorts, senior public relations manager of the company, told Izvestia. She stressed that Opera expects to continue to "remain committed to the privacy and security" of users.
The legal basis for blocking was the resolution Governments "On Approval of the Rules for Centralized Management of communications the Public Network," which is a by-law in the "sovereign law" adopted in 2019. Internet The distribution of the prohibited information is attributed by this decree to the list of threats, in the case of which Roskomnadzor introduces centralized management of the communication network.
Centralized management is carried out using the Technical Means of Countering Threats (TSPU), which are installed on the networks of Internet providers at the expense of the state. Earlier, with the help of TSPU, Roskomnadzor conducted an operation to slow down access to Twitter due to the service's refusal to remove prohibited content.
Due to the secrecy of Roskomnadzor, by June 17, 2021, it is not known exactly what equipment is supplied for blocking VPN, but assumptions can be made based on the range of RDP.RU products that these are mainly EcoDPI-based systems. Roskomnadzor assured that the restrictions will not affect Russian companies that use VPN services in continuous technological processes.
Roskomnadzor in mid-May 2021 began collecting information from enterprises that use VyprVPN and Opera VPN services to ensure the operation of technological processes. Appropriate requests should be sent to the Center for Monitoring and Management of Communication Networks of the Common User (CMU DMS).
Following the collection of appeals, Roskomnadzor formed a "white list" of 200 technological processes of 130 Russian companies, to ensure the continuity of which these VPN services will not be blocked.[11]
In April 2021, a list of traffic tunneling services allegedly appeared on the network, for which Roskomnadzor is developing blocking measures.
Earlier, in a conversation with Kommersant, the head of Roskomnadzor, Andrei Lipov, said that "there are VPN services that do not comply with the requirements of Russian law."
| | If they do not bring their activities in line with the law, access to them will be limited, he warned. | |
Roskomnadzor creates an IT system to search for data leaks on the Internet
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) is creating a system for monitoring violations in the field of protecting users' personal data on the Internet. This was announced on May 27, 2021 by the head of the department Andrei Lipov. Read more here.
Roskomnadzor slowed down all sites with "t.co" in the domain
On March 10, 2021, information appeared that Roskomnadzor slowed down all sites with "t.co" in the domain. The slowdown was hit by the Russia Today edition, the Microsoft.com domain, podcaster sites - Beardycast and Zavtracast, GitHub subdomains, Steam and others.
The slowdown of other resources, in addition to Twitter, was discovered by one of the users of the service and researchers of network blocking. First, he noticed the restriction of access to one of the GitHub subdomains, and then came to the conclusion that Roskomnadzor automatically slowed down all sites with t.co in the domain - one of the twitter subdomains.
Initially, he decided that other sites were slowed down due to the fact that Roskomnadzor limited some kind of global CDN - a content distribution network that is used by many resources at once. However, then the researcher conducted more tests with different addresses and found a pattern - only resources slowed down, in the address bar of which there was a combination of "t.co."
According to the researcher, the mechanism for slowing down sites used by Roskomnadzor is based on comparing addresses by substrings. In the case of t.co, the system looks for a string with the appropriate combination and limits the speed to all addresses with it.[12]
Roskomnadzor slows down the speed of Twitter due to the refusal of the social network to remove illegal content
On March 10, 2021, Roskomnadzor announced that it had begun to slow down Twitter's speed due to the social network's refusal to remove illegal content. Restrictive measures will first be "implemented on 100% of mobile devices and 50% of stationary devices." Read more here.
Roskomnadzor proposed to oblige social networks to report annually on the removal of prohibited content
As it became known on March 3, 2021, Roskomnadzor proposed to oblige social networks to annually report on the removal of prohibited content, including according to the requirements of users. Draft orders of Roskomnadzor are published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts, their public discussion will last until March 16, 2021. Read more here.
2020
Roskomnadzor uses neural network to search for prohibited content in Runet
On August 10, 2020, it became known about the decision Roskomnadzor to use neuronet to search for prohibited content in. RuNet This was stated by the head of the department Andrey Lipov during a working meeting with the president. Russia Vladimir Putin
According to Lipov, Roskomnadzor is working to reduce the amount of manual labor, increase the accuracy of its execution, speed and coverage, and digital technologies, including neural networks, are involved in this.
| | There is still a lot of manual work, the monitoring system is automated, it detects, people check... We hope that we will increase the accuracy of the search for illegal information to 85%, - said the head of Roskomnadzor. | |
He noted that from 2012 to August 2020, Roskomnadzor removed 1.5 million illegal materials. Among them are content related to the promotion of suicide, with child pornography and the distribution of drugs.
In a conversation with Putin, Andrei Lipov also said that in 2019, Roskomnadzor removed 531 thousand materials violating the law on the Internet, including 208 thousand records of extremist and terrorist organizations.
| | In the first place (out of 531 thousand 208 thousand) materials of extremist and terrorist organizations. A very serious gap, and this is the main challenge today, in my opinion, from the point of view of working on prohibited content on the Internet, "Lipov emphasized. | |
Earlier in 2020, Roskomnadzor concluded an agreement with the ANO "Center for the Study and Network Monitoring of the Youth Environment" under the Ministry of Education and Science to search for information threatening the life and health of children on the Internet. The Ministry of Education and Science plans to allocate 628 million rubles in three years. for activities to "identify and suppress prohibited information on the Internet aimed at inducing minors to illegal actions."[13]
As of the end of 2020, the monitoring system software allows Roskomnadzor to check more than 11.7 million text materials per day and identify illegal information with an accuracy of at least 85%.[14]
Moscow court fined Google for refusing to filter links to banned sites
On August 10, 2020, the magistrate of the judicial district of the Tagansky district of Moscow fined Google 1.5 million rubles for refusing to filter links to prohibited sites. The company was found guilty under Part 2.1 of Art. 13.40 of the Administrative Code (repeated failure to fulfill duties by the operator of the search engine).
The maximum fine for such a violation is 5 million rubles, the minimum is 1.5 million rubles. Thus, Google received a minimum administrative fine for a repeated violation related to the display of content prohibited in Russia in search results. Moreover, this is the third fine for the company in Russia: the size of the previous two was 500 and 700 thousand rubles.
Main article: Google Russia
Roskomnadzor announced the criteria for blocking sites
At the end of May 2020, Roskomnadzor presented criteria for evaluating materials, the publication of which is the basis for blocking the site. Read more here.
Roskomnadzor launched a system for tracking search engines and VPN
On March 13, 2020, it became known that a system for controlling VPN and proxy services, as well as search engines, was launched in Russia. It is fully automated, and Roskomnadzor manages it. The details are here.
2019
Roskomnadzor received additional powers to protect the Runet
On September 26, 2019, it became known that the Government of the Russian Federation made changes to the regulation on the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor, RKN), affecting the implementation of the law on ensuring the sustainable operation of the Russian segment of the Internet (Runet). Read more here.
Roskomnadzor distributed Telegram blocking equipment to operators
In mid-September 2019, it became known that Roskomnadzor distributed equipment to telecommunications operators to block Telegram and other Internet resources prohibited in Russia. Read more here.
The court decided to recover 415 thousand rubles from Roskomnadzor for illegal blocking of the domain
On June 20, 2019, it became known that the City Arbitration Court Moscow considered in a court hearing the case on the claim of an individual entrepreneur Arsen Valerievich Mirzayan (OGRNIP 311501235700039) against the Office of Roskomnadzor in the Republic, the Tatarstan federal service of Roskomnadzor and OJSC domain "Registrar of Names." Reg.ru The plaintiff demanded to recover from the named organizations the losses caused to him by the suspension of the delegation of the domain name of the огрн.онлайн for the period from November 24, 2016 to July 18, 2017, the administrator of which is the entrepreneur. The plaintiff equated the amount of recovery to lost profit in the amount of 4 million 984 thousand 179.38. rubles More. here
"EU-Leasing" will develop a system for controlling the blocking of prohibited sites
On May 9, 2019, it became known that the Federal Research Center "Informatics and Management" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which had previously won a tender for the development of a system for controlling the blocking of prohibited sites by search engines, anonymizers and VPN services, published an agreement with EU-Leasing CJSC on the development of this system. Read more here.
Roskomnadzor requires VPN services to start blocking prohibited sites
Main article: VPN and privacy (anonymity, anonymizers)
For the first time, Roskomnadzor demanded that owners of VPN services (Virtual Private Network) connect these services to the Federal State Information System (FGIS), which contains information about prohibited sites, RBC reported in March 2019 with reference to notifications sent by ten VPNs: NordVPN, Hide My Ass!, Hola VPN, Openvpn, VyprVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, Secure, Secure VPN and Secure VPN.
Agreement with the CIS on the identification and blocking of information inducing minors to illegal actions
On January 24, 2019, it became known that Roskomnadzor signed an agreement with the Center for the Study and Network Monitoring of the Youth Environment (CISM) on "identifying and blocking information that inclines minors to illegal actions." At the same time, it is specified that legally Roskomnadzor does not have the authority to carry out the actions provided for by the agreement, since the body that decides on this type of prohibited information has not yet been enshrined in by-laws.
The agreement stipulates the restriction of access to information prohibited on the basis of monitoring the CIS. Roskomnadzor refers to amendments to Article 15.1 of Federal Law No. 149-FZ, which provide for "an extrajudicial procedure for restricting access to information aimed at inducing or otherwise involving minors in the commission of illegal actions that pose a threat to their lives and other persons" (including calls to columbine, that is, to school shooting, which is why the initiative became known as the "Columbine law"). The amendments entered into force in December 2018.
Amendments to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 26, 2012 No. 1101 have not yet been adopted, namely, on the basis of these amendments, Rosmolodezh receives the right to determine what information falls under the "law on Columbine." Roskomnadzor, in turn, starts blocking only on the basis of an expert opinion.
The draft government decree is still undergoing the stage of verification of the "Regulatory Impact Assessment" (ODS), so Rosmolodezh has not yet received the authority to give expert opinions on this issue, therefore, Roskomnadzor cannot block content.
Ministry of Education and Science RUSSIAN FEDERATION plans to allocate 628 million in three years in the rubles form of a subsidy from the CIS for the search for information threatening the life and health of children, Internet for which a bill was developed. The document provides for the allocation of funds in the amount of 199.8 million rubles in 2019, 212.4 million rubles in 2020, 215.8 million rubles in 2021[15]
2018
Roskomnadzor will acquire a new technology for blocking prohibited resources
In 2019, the fight Roskomnadzor against prohibited resources Telegram in general and in particular will reach a new level. As informed by informed sources at the end of 2018 to the BBC Russian Service, in 2019 the regulator will acquire a new DPI blocking technology that allows checking the contents of network packets and filtering them according to specified criteria.
On the networks of large Internet providers in the nodal points of the Russian segment of the Internet, special complexes for analyzing and filtering traffic will be installed. Unlike SORM, blocking equipment will be purchased at state expense. The estimated cost of the system is 20 billion rubles.
According to BBC sources, IP blocking has proven ineffective, and the regulator no longer uses it in the fight against the problematic messenger. The authorities temporarily lifted pressure on Telegram, but by the beginning of next year it will resume. Soon Roskomnadzor will complete testing of a new blocking system in one of the regions of the Russian Federation. Upon completion of testing, it will be deployed throughout the country.
The first tests of the new system began in August this year on the networks of the state-owned company "Rostelecom" in the city of Reutov, and in November-December they were transferred to the city with a population of one million in the Volga region.
RKN opened an administrative case against Google, issued a fine and is preparing to block the search engine
The Office of Roskomnadzor for the Central Federal District opened an administrative case against Google in November 2018 due to the fact that the search engine does not comply with the rule on filtering information prohibited in Russia. This was reported on the ILV website[16] up].
As noted in the message, Russian legislation obliges search engines operators to exclude links to resources with illegal information from the search results. To do this, they must connect to the federal state information system containing a list of prohibited Internet resources. However, Roskomnadzor found that Google did not connect to this system.
In December, Roskomnadzor imposed a fine on Google in the amount of 500 thousand rubles. for the fact that the company did not connect to the Federal State Information System (FGIS) in order to filter search results, as provided for by Russian law. About this writes in December TASS Information Agency of Russia with reference to the statement of the head of the department Alexander Zharov.
At the same time, Zharov said that Roskomnadzor will continue to monitor the implementation of the law on filtering links by Google. Moreover, the department intends to start the following administrative case against the company in the near future.
Roskomnadzor is ready to consider the possibility of a complete blocking of the Google search service in Russia if the American corporation continues to ignore the requirements of Russian legislation. This message, according to Interfax, was made by the deputy head of the department [Subbotin Vadim]]. Subbotin stressed that, if necessary, Roskomnadzor will make all attempts to block Google in the country. This also includes making amendments to the current legislation to close access to the search from Russian IP addresses.
IPv6 protocol will cease to save from Roskomnadzor locks
The use in Russia by Internet resources of the 128-bit Internet access protocol IPv6 will cease to be unconditional protection against their blocking by the authorities. Roskomnadzor began sending letters to telecom operators in which it reports that by October 1, 2018, the regulator intends to complete the development of a mechanism for making IPv6 records in the List of domain names, site page pointers, as well as network addresses that allow identifying sites on the Internet, access to which telecom operators are required to restrict (so-called. "unloading")[17].
Information about this in his telegram channel was published by the head of hosting Diphost Philip Kulin. "In this regard, we ask you to prepare filtering systems to restrict access to prohibited resources, information about which is included in the upload in IPv6 format," the Roskomsvoboda resource provided by Kulin quotes literally.
"Now providers providing Internet access using the IPv6 protocol block or do not block sites from 'uploading' at their discretion," Kulin notes. - For the reason that Roskomnadzor does not know how to verify this fact. But most commercial filtering systems have long been able to block over IPv6. "
The largest blocking of sites in the pursuit of Telegram
Main article Telegram Messenger
On April 13, the Tagansky District Court of the city Moscow satisfied the claim of Roskomnadzor to block messenger Telegram due to the refusal to transfer the keys to the supervisory authorities (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation). enciphering
According to Flexbby, about 400 Russian companies were affected by the blocking of subnets Amazon and Google. In particular, there are failures in the operation of data warehouses, business applications, artificial intelligence systems, geolocation, payments, interaction with banks, customer service, etc. The company estimates the potential losses of Russian business in the coming months if blocking continues at $1 billion in the most pessimistic scenario. In addition, the suspension of the work of cloud services Amazon and Google, as well as the advertising platform Google may lead to the loss of $940 million by these corporations at the end of 2018.
Lack of demand for the law on blocking VPN services
In February 2018, Roskomnadzor recognized the lack of demand for the law on blocking VPN services. Three months after its entry into force, the department did not send a single VPN project or anonymizer a requirement to block users from accessing sites that are included in the register of prohibited information.
| | As of today, there have been no requests from participants in the ORD (operational-search activities - approx. TAdviser) and state security regarding anonymizers and VPN services, a representative of Roskomnadzor told RBC. | |
All the most popular large services in the country agreed to comply with the law banning the use of VPN services and anonymizers to bypass blocking unwanted information in Russia , the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov said earlier, then calling cameleo.ru and 2ip.ru. Representatives of most foreign services initially reported that they would not obey the requirements of Russian legislation, and continue to adhere to this position, the newspaper notes.
Karen Ghazaryan, an analyst at the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC), believes that Roskomnadzor has no leverage for VPN services and the ability to block for failure to comply with the law, since the department does not have ready-made technical solutions for this, and the law has not yet appeared relevant by-laws.
| | They will not be able to copy the Chinese model of the fight against VPN in Russia due to its high cost and a radically different topology of the Russian segment of the Internet network, the expert argues. | |
Also, the application of the law is complicated by the fact that VPN is used not only to bypass blocking on the Internet, but also in corporate networks for work.
| | The law says it does not apply to corporate VPNs, but there is no way to distinguish them from services used for personal needs yet. It is possible that the first blockages will ultimately affect the commercial and banking sectors, - said the lawyer of the Roskomsvoboda project Sarkis Darbinyan.[18]] | |
2017
Roskomnadzor blocked 3.5 thousand sites related to drugs and terrorism
In December 2017, Roskomnadzor announced that it had blocked access to 3.5 thousand Internet resources on the territory of the Russian Federation due to non-compliance with court requirements to remove materials containing drug propaganda and calls for extremist activities.[19]
{{quote 'Since the beginning of the Unified Register of Prohibited Information in 2012, owners of more than 29.4 thousand Internet resources have restricted access to prohibited information after sending a notification to Roskomnadzor. In this regard, these sites were excluded from the Unified Register.
At the same time, today telecom operators limit access on the territory of Russia to 3.5 thousand pages of sites that refused to delete such information. Access to them will be restored after fulfilling the requirements of the courts, "the ministry said in a statement.[20]}}
| | While it is difficult to argue with the need to combat the resources through which drugs are distributed and terrorism is promoted, the effectiveness of the measures taken by Roskomnadzor raises a lot of questions, purely technical, including, "says Oleg Galushkin, an information security expert at SEC Consult Services. - In fact, most of these resources simply go to the dark web, in respect of which the approach taken by the ILV is deliberately useless. In general, Roskomnadzor has acquired in recent years a steadily negative reputation in society as a whole and among technical specialists in particular. If only because the methods used to block IP addresses often cause excessive "collateral damage," so sites that have nothing to do with "prohibited information" are inaccessible. | |
Roskomnadzor maintains a register of prohibited sites (which includes sites containing information prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation) in accordance with the Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection." Within a day from the moment a particular site is entered into the register, operators must restrict access to it.
Under Roskomnadzor, a site blocking unit appeared
The department, which is studying ways to block Internet resources, was created Main Radio Frequency Center in (GRCC), subordinate. To Roskomnadzor This unit is conducting experiments to restrict access to sites, write "."News
Roskomnadzor for the first time closed access to sites at the suit of an individual before the court decision
According to the court's precedent, Roskomnadzor closed access to three sites that posted custom-made articles about Kazakhstani billionaire Kenesh Rakishev. Resources are included in the Unified Register of Sites containing information whose distribution is prohibited. Telecom operators have already limited users' access to Internet resources that posted inaccurate information about the entrepreneur. Thus, the decision of the Tushinsky District Court of the city of Moscow of May 15, 2017 was fully fulfilled.
The interests of the businessman in court were represented by the international law firm Ilyashev and Partners.
Restricting access to sites that belong to companies registered in the United States is an interim measure on the claim of an individual in the case of protecting honor, dignity and business reputation and recognizing the activities of Internet resources as illegal. The sites are closed pending a court ruling on the main lawsuit. This measure is used for the first time in Russian practice.
The court decided to satisfy the statement of Kenes Rakishev in order to prevent further dissemination of inaccurate information. Previously, it was possible to demand the closure of resources or a ban on indexing by search engines only with a court order on damage to honor, dignity and business reputation.
"The court perfectly understood the situation, referring to the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which obliges the state to provide any person whose rights and freedoms are violated with effective remedies." - noted Vladimir Zakharov, head of the Moscow office of the law firm "Ilyashev and Partners"[21] of[22]
Blocked more than 200 groups of hookers in the network
Having found out that the main incentive for the growth of the popularity [23] is cheering friends and idols, the largest suburban railway carrier, Russia(Central Suburban Passenger Company CPPK), together Roskomnadzor with launched a full-scale campaign to combat the movement of hookers in the most popular social network among Russian youth. At the VK.com time of the start of the action in September 2016, 39 active Vkontakte groups were identified and blocked, with a total number of participants of more than 12 thousand people. In October, at the initiative of the CPPK, Roskomnadzor specialists blocked another 47 groups, which consisted of more than 37 thousand people. Further, both newly created communities and other identified groups were blocked. According [24] the [25]
"Rospotrebnadzor experts recognize hooking as a hidden form of suicidal behavior. The adherents of this extreme hobby not only unjustifiably risk their own health and life - they endanger railway passengers. transport The hooking subculture attracts teenagers who do not always realize the possible consequences of a dangerous hobby. It is obvious to me that thematic communities in social networks play the role of organizers and propagandists, which is simply unacceptable, "comments the Subbotin Vadim deputy head of Roskomnadzor.
"White list" of sites from Roskomnadzor (creation and cancellation)
On June 7, 2017, it became known that Roskomnadzor created a "white list" of sites that included state resources and social networks. The list indicated a *.google. * mask that allows you to bypass locks of any domains.
On June 13, Roskomnadzor sent a document to providers in which it canceled the "white lists." The press secretary of the department, Ampelonsky Vadim, explained that we are talking about the cancellation by regional divisions of their own recommendations "not to carry out DNS resolution" after Putin's direct line.
In September 2017, Roskomnadzor revoked the "white" lists of sites that operators should not have blocked under any conditions, Izvestia reports. According to Evgeny Zaytsev, head of the electronic communications control and supervision department of Roskomnadzor, the department has found a technical way to avoid blocking them.
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Roskomnadzor blocked all BlackBerry in Russia
Roskomnadzor blocked the sites of the BlackBerry company, depriving the owners of their smartphones of access to settings and personal accounts. In response to user complaints, Russian officials send them to Canada, to the smartphone manufacturer [26]].
Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry, which is famous for its security and because of this is especially popular with businessmen and politicians, refused to provide data on its users to the Russian supervisory authority. After that, sites associated with BlackBerry were blocked. Blocking practically did not affect the work of the messenger, the data transfer of which is carried out over a secure channel. But other services that BlackBerry provides to its customers were blocked: people who officially bought a smartphone in a Moscow store can no longer use the activation of a new device or enter the application store. The service for finding and managing a lost device using a special BlackBerry service has stopped working.
Roskomnadzor began blocking torrent tracker servers
The Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) announced in May 2017 the start of blocking "announcements" - servers responsible for communication between users of the torrent tracker. This measure will allow "to slow down the distribution process, since the torrent client ceases to receive information from whom you can download this or that file," according to the agency's Facebook page .
"Advertisers" collect the data necessary to organize sustainable file sharing. In particular, who distributes which files, at what stage the user has the download of a particular file. Based on the information collected, the "announcer" offers IP addresses of users who can download the file of interest, explained in the message of Roskomnadzor. Servers are blocked by IP carriers.
The department spoke about its struggle with the "announcements" in connection with the anniversary of the entry into force of the "anti-piracy" amendments introduced to the law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection" on May 1, 2015. These amendments give Roskomnadzor the right to block resources with illegal content for life.
Since the amendments entered into force, Roskomnadzor has received 1,451 definitions of the Moscow City Court on preliminary interim measures and 3.3 thousand applications from copyright holders in relation to 29 thousand resources. Only 5.2% of the total number of sites for which measures are being taken were blocked by telecom operators. In other cases, access to information that violates copyright was blocked by the administrations of pirated resources, the Roskomnadzor said in a statement.
Negotiations with anonymizers and VPN services to block banned sites
Roskomnadzor is negotiating with anonymizers and VPN services to restrict access to blocked sites. The general director of the HideMe.ru, Markus Saar, told Vedomosti about this in April 2017. This service was blocked by Roskomnadzor for 4.5 months.
According to the representative of the regulator Vadim Ampelonsky, the work of the anonymizer is prohibited if it provides access to blocked resources. In the opposite case, the law does not interfere with the activities of such services.
Also in April, it became known that a bill was developed that would prohibit anonymizing sites and VPN services that provide access to blocked resources on the Internet. According to Vedomosti, the project was initiated by the Security Council, the document was prepared by Roskomnadzor.
A number of sources say that in fact, the development was carried out by lawyers of the Media Communication Union (ISS). The organization did not confirm this information, but reported interest in this document.
According to the authors' idea, the use of networks and programs to access blocked sites should be prohibited. The use of these services for legal purposes, for example, for a secure connection, is not prohibited. Owners of anonymizers are invited to give access to the register of banned sites of Roskomnadzor. If the service still allows you to go to a prohibited site, it itself will be blocked.
In addition, the bill provides for a ban on the search for links to blocked sites under the threat of a fine up to 700 thousand rubles.
Start blocking VPN services
Roskomnadzor entered a VPN service into the Register of Prohibited Sites Hideme.ru. This follows from the file cabinet Antizapret.info. The basis for blocking the service was a court decision [27]].
The fact that Hideme.ru appears in the decisions of the courts on blocking anonymizers became known back in 2016. The service administration tried to avoid blocking and removed the form of a free anonymizer from the site, leaving only a paid VPN service (to use it, you need to pay for a subscription and install a special client program).
However, the blocking of the site did Hideme.ru take place. True, it was the site itself that was blocked. The VPN service, together with the corresponding servers, continues to work, the CNews correspondent was convinced.
2016
Roskomnadzor demands that Opera prohibit the use of its VPN to bypass locks
Roskomnadzor and Otello Corporation (formerly Opera Software) discussed restricting access to sites banned in the Russian Federation with blocking bypass modes included in the browser, Kommersant wrote. The Opera browser has a mode that allows you to bypass sites blocked by the provider. The company in April this year announced that it has integrated an unlimited and free VPN into its product. In fact, it was the easiest way to visit sites banned in the Russian Federation.
Nothing is known about the results of the negotiations, but most likely, Roskomnadzor will have to start all over again and negotiate with the central office of Opera Software. The Russian office, with which representatives of the supervisory authority communicated, will soon be closed. This decision was made by the new shareholders of the company. On November 4, Opera Software closed a deal to sell consumer businesses, including a browser, to a consortium of Chinese investors led by Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I L.P. for $575 million[28].
In February, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, clarified the department's position on VPNs, anonymizers and other means to bypass blocking sites. Zharov admitted that fighting these tools with direct prohibitions is useless and will more effectively negotiate with the creators of such tools. The Opera Software negotiations were the first step in this direction.
RKN conducts "carpet" blocking of online casinos due to an old court decision
In the summer of 2016, Roskomnadzor began to massively block IP addresses related to gambling activities on the Internet, without binding to the URL and domains of the corresponding sites. The number of addresses blocked in this way, according to the reestr.rublacklist.net file cabinet, is in the hundreds.
Decisions on blocking these resources are made either by the Federal Tax Service (FTS), authorized to block casino sites, sweepstakes, bookmakers, etc., or regional courts. Moreover, in the case of the courts, most of the blocking of IP addresses refers to the decision of one instance - the Oktyabrsky District Court of Stavropol, issued back in June 2013.
According to the text of the court decision, published in the file cabinet of the sudact.ru, the district prosecutor filed a lawsuit with the court. He discovered sites on the Web with prohibited gambling (poker, roulette, slot machines), as well as with sweepstakes. At the same time, in the published text of the decision there are no addresses of sites subject to blocking[29] to[30].
Blocking Russia's largest anonymizer Hamelion
In Russia, the largest anonymizer "Chameleon" was included in the list of banned sites, according to Izvestia[31]. At the same time, anonymizers are not formally prohibited in Russia [32], And the site itself does not contain prohibited information. Nevertheless, Roskomnadzor explained the blocking by the fact that it creates conditions for access to prohibited resources, in particular, to extremist materials. The department also noted that if the owners of Chameleon make contact with the department, it will be possible to jointly develop an action strategy and thus avoid blocking.
2015
Roskomnadzor will create a system for controlling the blocking of sites "Inspector General" for 100 million rubles
On September 24, 2015, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) announced plans to launch a site blocking control system in Russia. The project will be called the "Auditor."
The right to control the activities of social networks
In the spring of 2015, the Government of the Russian Federation officially allowed Roskomnadzor to monitor the activities of social networks. This decision was made at a regular government meeting. The resolution was approved and signed by Dmitry Medvedev.
The meaning of the main provisions of the document is to intensify state measures aimed at protecting the rights of citizens from various manifestations of terrorism and extremism. The decree was put into effect as part of the "anti-terrorist package" of activating these measures.
What additional rights are now vested in the federal executive body, designed to protect the personal rights of personal data subjects?
Roskomnadzor received every right to get acquainted with the correspondence of active users of popular social networks, such as: Odnoklassniki, VKontakte. The supervisory authority will also have access to e-mail of Internet users, as well as messaging systems Агент.Mail.ru, ICQ. All social networks, mail services, blogs, forums and other similar platforms are subject to the new requirements. They are required to store user data for six months.
The procedure for monitoring personal correspondence is strictly regulated and put into effect exclusively at the request of law enforcement agencies as part of the conduct of operational-search measures.
The agency received the right to check the organizers of the dissemination of information - sites and providers that organize the transmission of user messages. During such events, Roskomnadzor will establish "the facts of receiving, transmitting, delivering and (or) processing users' electronic messages."
Inspections will be carried out without the sanction of the prosecutor's office, the reason may be an appeal from law enforcement agencies or a violation by the provider of the deadlines for eliminating previously identified shortcomings in organizing the transmission of messages.
The results of the check will be published on the website of Roskomnadzor.
2014: Expansion of the authority to control the Internet
In 2014, the powers of Roskomnadzor to control the implementation of Russian legislation regarding the Internet were again expanded. The reorganization of the subordinate radio frequency service was carried out. All expert functions are now concentrated in the Main Radio Frequency Center, and the powers for engineering and technical support of the activities of Roskomnadzor are fully entrusted to the Radio Frequency Center of the Central Federal District, which includes enterprises of the radio frequency service in the federal districts.
In addition to improving the structure of the radio frequency service, the head of the department, Alexander Zharov, highlights[33] among the results of 2014, the interface between the information systems of Roskomnadzor and the Emergency Situations Committee, which brought to a new level control and supervision in the field of communications; an increase in the provision of public services in electronic form; modernization of approaches to the protection of the rights of personal data subjects.
" In this row , the expansion of joint activities with the Prosecutor General's Office to counter the manifestations of extremism on the Internet, strengthening in accordance with the" law on bloggers "targeted work with the owners and administrations of Internet sites, hosting providers in order to promptly remove illegal information and minimize blocking popular Internet resources," says Zharov.
2014 was the year of the final consolidation of the status of the main authority for Roskomnadzor, which ensures the information security of the individual, the society of the state in the Internet environment.
"We are implementing an important regulatory function aimed at creating tools to effectively counter the dissemination of socially dangerous information on the Internet, to strengthen the information sovereignty of Russia," he adds.
In 2014, despite a decrease in the total number of inspections (especially small and medium-sized businesses), Roskomnadzor revealed more violations than a year earlier. Accordingly, the volume of issued orders and fines imposed increased. Inspections are carried out mainly on the basis of violations identified during systematic observation activities that do not require interaction with market participants.
2012
Notifications of Youtube and 4 other US companies about the illegal distribution of personal data of Russians
In July 2012, Roskomnadzor announced notifications to 5 American companies and one domain name registrar from the Bahamas about the illegal distribution of personal data of Russians on their domains. Among these companies are Youtube and Livejournal, which, respectively, own the largest video hosting and a popular blog platform in Russia.
Roskomnadzor requires these companies to stop delegating the relevant domain names or remove information that violates Russian law. Which of the pages on these resources violate personal data is not reported. SUP Media, which owns the Livejournal service, said it was not aware of this requirement.
Similar letters were received by American registrars Domains By Proxy and Names.com. The first of them serves the domains of the feritac.info and its mirror - the elgebei.info on which information about the residence of Muscovites is located. Names.com serves the domain of the huzhe.net on which the "complaint book" is located, which allows you to place a complaint against any person or organization.
Another addressee of Roskomnadzor's letters, the Bahamian Internet.bs, serves a similar obmanof.net resource where you can leave complaints about Internet scammers. In the complaints, you can also indicate the contact details of the "fraudsters," which, apparently, was the reason for the requirements of Roskomnadzor to disable the domains.
Notifications were sent in the period from the beginning of July, no answers to them have yet been received. At the same time, Roskmonadzor asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to assist through diplomatic channels in stopping the dissemination of personal data of Russians.
In total, since the beginning of 2012, Roskomnadzor has sent 42 demands abroad to stop the dissemination of information, violating the Russian Law "On the Protection of Personal Data." A positive response was received in 15 cases. Of these, in 12 cases, registrars disabled domain names. The moscownomers.org and pyat.net resources removed the illegal information after their registrars (from the United States and India, respectively) forwarded them the relevant letters from the Russian authorities.
And the wcb.su website did this after receiving a requirement from the State Service of Ukraine for the protection of personal data. In other cases, Roskomnadzor promises to apply for protection to the authorized bodies of the relevant countries. In the fight against information posted on foreign social networks, Roskomnadzor has only one successful precedent so far: the shockcrim.blogspot.com resource, located on the Blogspot service owned by Google, stopped working after contacting the registrar of the corresponding domain name - the American MarkMonitor[34].
"Blacklist Roskomnadzor " on child porn, drugs and suicide
The Law "On Countering Extremism" prohibits the use of communication networks to distribute extremist products, but how to deal with FSEM Internet providers is still unclear. Providers restricted access only in cases where courts or prosecutors issued appropriate decisions directly to them.
They did not clarify the amendments to the Law "On Information" in 2012, which established for providers the obligation to block access to resources from a special "black list" maintained by Roskomnadzor. Extremist materials do not fall into it: it collects information about sites that distribute child pornography, drug propaganda and suicide. Legislative changes also provided for the possibility of centralized blocking of the site, prohibited by a court decision on any grounds, but so far there have been no such precedents, and the FSEM still does not associate with the list of Roskomnadzor.
Notes
- ↑ ILV has developed a procedure for maintaining a register of bloggers with 10 thousand subscribers
- ↑ Bot won't pass
- ↑ Forced ARI
- ↑ FastComet. Roskomnadzor took additional measures of coercion against foreign hosting providers
- ↑ The number of sites blocked in Russia increased by 85% year-on-year.
- ↑ Virtual number will not pass
- ↑ " To the attention of mass media and other information resources
- ↑ [https://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2021-09-07_roskomnadzor_otkroet_rossijskim Roskomnadzor
- ↑ will give Russian banks access to child porn, sites about drugs and extremism.]
- ↑ Runet is not for the record. Services cut off the ability to bypass locks
- ↑ On taking measures in relation to services for circumventing restrictions on access to illegal content
- ↑ Roskomnadzor slowed down all sites with "t.co" in the domain
- ↑ Roskomnadzor will look for prohibited Internet content by neural network
- ↑ Roskomnadzor attracted AI to monitor content on the Internet
- ↑ Roskomnadzor is going to block "dangerous information" on the Internet.
- ↑ [https://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news63578.htm A protocol on an administrative offense against Google has been drawn
- ↑ CNews: The IPv6 protocol will cease to save from Roskomnadzor locks
- ↑ and media/20/02/2018/5a8af1fb9a79475ec4680ca4# xtor=AL- [internal traffic -- [rss.rbc.ru] - [top stories brief news] Blocking VPN services in Russia turned out to be unclaimed
- ↑ About 3.5 thousand sites blocked in Russia due to refusal to delete prohibited information
- ↑ Based on court decisions, the dissemination of information with drug propaganda and extremist materials on 33 thousand sites was stopped
- ↑ [http://www.cnews.ru/news/line/2017-06-19_roskomnadzor_vpervye_zakryl_dostup_k_sajtam_po Roskomnadzor for the first time closed access to sites at the suit
- ↑ an individual before the court decision.]
- ↑ of hookingHooking is an extremely dangerous movement popular among young people. Hookers tend to pass on trains outside the wagons, being held by means of handrails, footboards, stairs and any other components of equipment of wagons, including on the end parts of locomotives or on roofs. Teenagers are constantly injured from this method of travel on transport trains, and emergencies can not lead to train delays. Thanks to legislative initiatives to combat a dangerous subculture, starting from April 4, 2017, for hooligan actions that threaten the safety of the operation of vehicles , hookers face a fine of 150 thousand rubles. up to 300 thousand rubles. or in the amount of salary (other income) for a period of up to 2 years, or restriction or imprisonment for up to 2 years.
- ↑ to
- ↑ Investigative Committee, in of the Russian Federation 2016, 21 cases of fatal injuries were registered among minors engaged in hooking. In 2017, there were already 9 such incidents, which emphasizes the importance of combating life-threatening traffic. The constant work of blocking hooker groups on the VK.com social network led to an almost complete drop in the activity of such communities by April 2017. And new attempts to gather groups with the beginning of the summer season in May 2017 came to naught by August 2017 due to the operational blocking of communities. Last month, only 2 groups were discovered and closed on the social network. Over the entire period of the campaign, 236 groups were blocked from 29.08.2016 to 31.08.2017, which led to a decrease in the activity of participants in creating new associations and a drop in the morale of the hooker movement..
- ↑ [https://www.pravda.ru/news/society/24-05-2017/1335106-roskomnadzor-0/ Roskomnadzor blocked all BlackBerry in Russia
- ↑ [http://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2017-01-12_v_rossii_nachalis_blokirovki_vpn CNews: VPN blocking began in Russia
- ↑ Roskomnadzor requires Opera to ban the use of its VPN to bypass locks
- ↑ [http://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2016-07-29_vlasti_nachali_kovrovye_blokirovki_zarubezhnogo CNews: The authorities are "carpet" blocking of the foreign Internet due
- ↑ an old court decision]
- ↑ Roskomnadzor blacklisted the largest Russian anonymizer
- ↑ Anonymizers are sites that allow you to mask an IP address.
- ↑ the Public Report of Roskomnadzor following the results of 2014
- ↑ The Russian authorities demand to disable the domains Livejournal.com and Youtube.com
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