Blocking sites by Roskomnadzor

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2024

Roskomnadzor blocked Viber

On December 13, 2024, Roskomnadzor limited access to the popular Viber messenger in the Russian Federation. The reason is a violation of the requirements of Russian legislation for the organizers of the dissemination of information. Read more here.

In Russia, began to block sites for watching anime

In early December 2024, Roskomnadzor began restricting access to sites for watching anime. In particular, the resources of jut.su, AnimeGO and YummyAnime are blocked.

The introduction of blocking is reported by the Internet sites themselves. So, a detailed comment was given by representatives of YummyAnime. It is said that most of the blocked anime resources were added to the Roskomnadzor register on December 2-3, 2024. At the same time, it is alleged that YummyAnime did not receive a notification from the supervisory authority.

Roskomnadzor began to restrict access to sites for watching anime

They again did not receive letters with warnings, everyone learned about the imminent blocking from the register, but, apparently, they could not do anything. We did not receive a letter from the RKN, we always react instantly to all other letters. We have already sent a letter with a request to clarify the reason, - says the Telegram channel YummyAnime.

As the reason for the blocking, Article 15.1 of the Federal Law of 27.07.2006 No. 149-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection" is indicated. The blocking is confirmed by the jut.su resource, which hosts the anime "Naruto," "Van Peace," "Bleach," etc.

Roskomnadzor has entered into the register all top anime sites, including and jut.su. Many sites are no longer available, the same fate awaits the rest, "notes jut.su.

YummyAnime speculates that the blocking may be related to anime with LGBT propaganda ("LGBT International Social Movement" is recognized as extremist and terrorist; prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation).

Of the possible reasons [for blocking], it is most likely that it is again an anime with LGBT propaganda. On the site, such anime were completely blocked. We continue to monitor the situation. We hope that the domain will be restored in the near future, - emphasizes the administration of YummyAnime.[1]

The authority to block copies of pirated sites will pass from Ministry of Digital Development to Roskomnadzor

On January 25, 2024, a bill will be submitted to the State Duma providing for the transfer of powers to block the "mirrors" of pirated sites from the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation to Roskomnadzor. It is assumed that this will reduce the timing of the introduction of restrictions on access to illegal resources. Read more here.

Russia adopted a law on blocking sites selling prohibited dietary supplements without trial

State Duma Russia adopted a law providing for pre-trial blocking of Internet resources that trade in prohibited ones. biologically active additives (dietary supplements) This became known on July 9, 2024. The new regulatory act is aimed at strengthening control over the circulation of dietary supplements and protecting the health of citizens. Read more [[Dietary supplements (dietary supplements)|here].

Roskomnadzor blocked the American CDN operator Cloudflare

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media initiated the blocking of access to Cloudflare servers due to the introduction of ECH encryption technology, which became known on November 6, 2024. Read more here.

In accordance with the Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Protection" (No. 149-FZ), blocking sites can be carried out on the basis of a court decision that has entered into force. That is, before Roskomnadzor enters the corresponding resource in the Register of Prohibited Sites, hearings in the appellate instance must be held or the monthly period allotted for filing an appeal must be released.

After that, Roskomnadzor provides the desired three days to delete the controversial information, otherwise the site will be blocked.

If a decision on interim measures is received, the agency sends notifications to the owner of the relevant site and its hosting provider about the need to delete the disputed information and allocates three days for this.

But Sarkis Darbinyan, a lawyer at the Center for the Protection of Digital Rights, also knows that site blocking by definitions of interim measures is not quick.

"The Civil Law Code does not have a separate procedure for blocking sites on the basis of interim measures," Darbinyan said. - Exceptions are the definitions of the Moscow City Court for blocking sites that violate copyright - but for this there is a separate "anti-piracy law."

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the transfer of powers from Ministry of Digital Development to Roskomnadzor to block site mirrors

On June 22, 2024, the president Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which the authority Ministry of Digital Development to block copies (mirrors) of prohibited sites is transferred. To Roskomnadzor It is assumed that this will speed up the process of restricting access to such resources.

It is said that the procedure for implementing the rule on restricting access to mirrors of blocked sites provided for by the Federal Law "seems overly difficult." If such a resource is found on the Internet, information about it is sent to the Ministry of Digital Development, which within 24 hours decides to recognize it as a copy of the blocked site. Further, the relevant information is sent to the owner of the site and to Roskomnadzor. After that, the regulator is obliged to ensure interaction with hosting providers, telecom operators and search engines operators within 24 hours, which, in turn, within 24 hours after receiving information from Roskomnadzor, should restrict access to the mirror and stop issuing information about it in the search engine. That is, the blocking procedure can last four days.

Vladimir Putin

The new law involves optimizing the process. Thanks to the transfer of authority to block the mirrors of sites directly to Roskomnadzor, the entire procedure will take no more than two days. As a result, the effectiveness of blocking Internet resources in general will increase. In addition, the adopted law extends the ban on issuing information on copies of prohibited sites in the search engine to all search engines operators, and not only to those who publish ads for users from Russia.

The changes made will extend the obligation to stop issuing information about the site - a mirror in search results to all search engines operators, regardless of their distribution of advertising for Russian consumers, "the document[2]"

Copies of pirated sites in Russia will be blocked faster

In April 2024, the State Duma adopted a bill according to which the powers to combat "mirrors" sites in Russia are transferred from the Ministry of Ministry of Digital Development to Roskomnadzor. It is assumed that thanks to this initiative, copies of pirated sites will be blocked faster

We propose to optimize the scheme so that Roskomnadzor makes a decision and sends it, which will limit access to the "mirror" for up to two days, which is much faster, "explained Alexander Khinshtein, chairman of the State Duma IT committee.

Powers to combat "mirrors" sites in Russia are transferred from the Ministry of Ministry of Digital Development to Roskomnadzor in order to block them faster

Roskomnadzor noted that the mechanism provided for by the bill will allow the department to independently decide on the recognition of resources as copies of sites - violators of copyright or related rights and reduce the time for restricting access to them.

In addition, the initiative proposes to extend to all search engines the obligation to remove duplicate pirated ones from search results. By April 19, 2024, only search engines distributing advertising in the Russian segment of the Internet are obliged to do this.

The changes made will extend the obligation to stop issuing information about the "mirror" site in search results to all search engines operators, regardless of their distribution of advertising for Russian consumers, "the explanatory note to the bill says.

In 2023, Roskomnadzor blocked access to 228,000 materials in connection with the failure to remove information disseminated in violation of copyright or related rights. In 2022, 114 thousand pirated materials got through such restrictions. According to MUSO (piracy monitoring) and consultancy Kearney for 2023, Russia is in third place in the world in terms of pirated video content consumption.^[3]

Blocking Amazon cloud services in Russia

On April 15, 2024, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) blocked the Amazon Web Services (AWS) website and began restricting access to the cloud services of the American company. Read more here.

Roskomnadzor has already blocked more than 2 thousand resources to counter interference in the presidential elections in the Russian Federation

More than 2 thousand resources and materials that spread destructive fake information and in order to disrupt the elections in have been RUSSIAN FEDERATION blocked since the beginning of 2024. Presidential elections Russia are scheduled for March 17, 2024. Voting will last March 15, 16 and 17. This was announced on February 9, 2024 by the press service of the deputy. State Duma of the Russian Federation Anton Nemkin

According to the deputy head of Roskomnadzor Vadim Subbotin, for February 2024, the RKN records attempts to discredit the upcoming presidential elections, organizing protest actions aimed at disrupting them, intimidating the population by mass stuffing about terrorist attacks, including in educational institutions, organization and coordination of protests and riots from abroad, related to the regional agenda - any reason is purposefully developed by external forces to destabilize the situation in the regions.

We are actively working on such incidents together with the territorial bodies of Roskomnadzor in cooperation with the Central Election Commission, the General Prosecutor's Office, and interested state authorities. Since the beginning of the year, access to more than 2 thousand resources and individual materials on the above topics has been limited, "Subbotin said.

In general, countries of the West and the United States accept obvious attempts to interfere in the affairs of Russia, external forces continue to try to put pressure on Russian society in the context of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, said Anton Nemkin. At the same time, platforms that are in foreign jurisdiction or belong to those who are recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation are often used to spread destruction.

{{quote 'Our president has made it clear that a presidential campaign must take place in accordance with the law and any external interference must be suppressed. Therefore, to counter Western attempts, there is constant monitoring of the information space, authorized departments promptly restrict access to information destabilizing society. Monitoring is carried out in several directions - false information is monitored, stuffing related to the upcoming elections, information of an extremist and terrorist nature aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation. This work will definitely be continued and strengthened - at least in the near future several automated systems should be launched at once, which will also help protect Runet from external attacks and internal illegal activities, he said. }}

Nevertheless, the last few years have already taught us a lot - the information security circuit has been significantly strengthened both for all government resources and for business. Investments in cybersecurity are growing, and awareness of threats and measures to counter them is growing, "concluded Anton Nemkin.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said that domestic specialists repelled more than 65 thousand attacks on critical information infrastructure (CII) facilities in 2023. A year earlier, in 2022, 174 thousand cyber attacks on KII facilities were repelled. In addition, in 2023, 1.85 thousand incidents were eliminated against 2.3 thousand a year earlier. At the same time, if 28.9 thousand phishing sites were blocked in 2022, then in 2023 - more than 150 thousand such resources.

Roskomnadzor will depersonalize data on blocking sites

On February 2, 2024, Roskomnadzor published an order on changes in the rules for the operation of the information system, through which operators receive data on blocked sites. The agency proposes to depersonalize information related to the procedure for restricting access to network resources.

The information system in question contains data on blocking at the request of the Moscow City Court, the appeal of Roskomnadzor, copyright holders, etc. The changes relate only to the work of the Prosecutor General's Office: it has the right to extrajudicial blocking of resources with "military fakes" and "discrediting the army," sites of undesirable organizations, calls for riots, etc.

Roskomnadzor published an order on changes in the rules for the operation of the information system through which operators receive data on blocked sites

The document says that the Federal Law of November 2, 2023 No. 526-FZ amended Article 15.3 of Federal Law No. 149-FZ and introduced a new type of information, access to which is limited to Roskomnadzor at the request of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation or his deputies. This is information containing proposals for financing the enemy in conditions of armed conflict, military operations, counter-terrorism operation or other actions using weapons and military equipment, in which the Russian Federation takes part, as well as information on possible ways to carry out such financing.

The Kommersant newspaper notes that Roskomnadzor proposes to cancel the clause according to which Internet users should be able to check the existence of the requirements of the Prosecutor General's Office on the need to remove content prohibited in the Russian Federation. The changes are explained by the fact that the federal law "On Information" does not provide for the publication of the requirements of the prosecutor's office. Karen Ghazaryan, Director General of the Institute for Internet Research, believes that the new rules "will further blur the difference between registered and extra-registered blocking" - those carried out under the federal law "On Information," and those that occur at TSPU (technical means of countering threats), that is, equipment installed on networks under the law on "sovereign runet."^[4]

Blocking the meshok.net website by court decision due to the sale of SIM cards without a contract

The Basmanny Court of Moscow in November 2024 satisfied the claim of the prosecutor's office and ordered Roskomnadzor to enter into the register of prohibited resources the site of the meshok.net on which the sale of SIM cards of mobile operators was carried out without presenting a passport and concluding an agreement. Read more here

2023

Roskomnadzor for the year blocked more than 670 thousand prohibited materials. This is more than in 2022

Roskomnadzor in 2023 blocked more than 670 thousand prohibited materials. This is more than in 2022. The agency cited such data on January 26, 2024.

It also follows from the materials of Roskomnadzor that in 2023 about 558 thousand Internet pages were blocked or deleted on the basis of decisions of authorized state authorities, requirements of the Prosecutor General's Office and court decisions, another 112.2 thousand Internet pages - promptly, without being entered into the register, in cooperation with the administrations of social networks and Internet sites.

Most of the blockages in 2023 were for pro-drug content. Access to more than 104,000 "narcotic" Internet pages was limited, which is 25% more than in 2022 (78,800). In addition, 51,200 extremist materials were blocked on the network, according to statistics from Roskomnadzor.

The service also limited access to 26,300 Internet pages containing child pornography, 19,300 materials promoting non-traditional sexual relations and 13,000 resources with suicidal content, according to the agency.

The number of materials with fakes about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which were removed or blocked last year, fell almost twice compared to 2022: 73.5 thousand against 129.4 thousand a year earlier, when this norm appeared in Russian legislation. At the same time, the number of blocked materials on gambling has noticeably increased: up to 113 thousand against 84.1 thousand in 2022.

At the same time, the number of blocked or deleted materials with information about how to commit suicide decreased over the year to 36.6 thousand. In 2022, there were 62.4 thousand of them, according to the RKN.

For the illegal sale of alcohol, 6.9 thousand materials were blocked - the same as last year, and drugs - 35.3 thousand (in 2022 there were 21.8 thousand).^[5]

Roskomnadzor blocked 19 thousand web pages with information about LGBT people in a year

In 2023, Roskomnadzor blocked about 19 thousand web pages with information about LGBT people (this international movement was recognized by a Russian court as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), while in 2022, 239 pages were blocked. This was reported in the department in mid-January 2024.^[6]

Roskomnadzor began blocking OpenAI's GPTBot search robot

On December 11, 2023 Roskomnadzor , he began sending letters to hosting providers with recommendations for identifying and blocking the company's GPTBot bot. OpenAI According to the department, such measures are necessary to "exclude the collection of information on critical resource vulnerabilities." More. here

Roskomnadzor received the right to block sites with data on blocking bypass

In November 2023, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree giving Roskomnadzor the right to block sites with data on blocking bypass. According to the document, which will enter into force on December 1, 2023, "information on the methods, methods of providing access to information resources and (or) information and telecommunication networks, access to which is limited on the territory of the Russian Federation," is subject to blocking.

The Ministry of Digital Development made a proposal to empower Roskomnadzor with such powers in early September 2023. Roskomnadzor later developed assessment criteria to restrict access to sites. Among them - the presence of information there that encourages, convinces of the attractiveness of using methods of access to resources closed in Russia and justifies their advantages.

By November 2023, the register of prohibited data, in particular, includes:

• information on methods, methods of development, manufacture and use of drugs;
• materials with pornographic images of minors;
• information on how to commit suicide;
• information containing offers on retail sale of alcohol by remote method.

On the website of Roskomnadzor there is a form with which users can send a message about the presence of signs of prohibited information on the Internet resource. After verification, this data is transferred to Roskomnadzor. The agency, in turn, blocks the site.

On September 6, 2023, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Technologies, Alexander Khinshtein, said that it was impossible to prohibit VPN services, as well as to hold anyone accountable for their use, since this would not solve the problem of possible transfer of user data to third parties.

Government of the Russian Federation Resolution of November 16, 2023 No. 1926

Roskomnadzor has developed a mechanism for blocking pirated sites for LGBT propaganda in video content

On November 20, 2023, it became known that Roskomnadzor (RKN), the Media Communication Union and copyright holders - participants in the anti-piracy memorandum are beginning to block pirated Internet resources that host videos with LGBT propaganda. The law on the complete prohibition of LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and gender change entered into force in Russia on December 6, 2022.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the new mechanism for blocking pirated resources with LGBT propaganda combines information from two databases. This is the Unified Register of Prohibited Materials, for which Roskomnadzor is responsible. Another source of information is a special register in which links to pirated content are made by legal services on a voluntary basis.

It is noted that the copyright holders agreed with the RKN to unload references to individual pirated copies of video content from the anti-piracy register, which fall under the requirements of the law banning LGBT propaganda. The agency will analyze the transmitted links, and if illegal content is detected, it will enter them into the Unified Register of Prohibited Materials. After that, access to such resources will be blocked.

In accordance with the current legislation, for violation of the ban on the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations or preferences among persons of any age, a fine of 50 thousand to 400 thousand rubles for citizens, from 100 thousand to 800 thousand - for officials, from 800 thousand to 5 million or suspension of activities up to 90 days - for legal entities. Internet resources that disseminate such information are threatened with entering into the register prohibited with subsequent blocking. Legal video services as of November 2023 have removed illegal content from their sites. At the same time, films and TV shows with LGBT demonstrations are mandatory 18 + markings^[7]

The number of site locks for drug publications in Russia increased by 25% to 104 thousand web pages

The number of site locks for drug publications in Russia in 2023 increased by 25% compared to 2022 and exceeded 104 thousand web pages. Such data in Roskomnadzor were disclosed in mid-January 2024.

As Vedomosti writes with reference to the materials of the service, in 2023, 28,400 Internet pages related to the involvement of children in illegal activities were also blocked, against 20,700 a year earlier.

The publication recalls that, in accordance with Russian law, the country prohibits the publication of information on the methods of development, manufacture and use of drugs, places of their distribution, etc. This information, along with information about the propaganda of suicide, extremism and child pornography, is subject to blocking under Art. 15.1 of the Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection." ILV, based on the materials of authorized bodies, enters pages with these types of information into the register of prohibited sites, after which communication providers are obliged to restrict access to them.

Despite the increase in blocking, the total number of pages with information about drugs on the Internet is growing, said Ekaterina Mizulina, director of the Safe Internet League. She explains this by the fact that the drug business left the darknet zone and moved to large legal platforms, including Telegram.

According to Mizulina, pages with drug content do not live longer than two months, after which they move to "mirrors," changing bots, account, channel, chat. The head of the Center for Law Enforcement in Moscow and the Moscow Region, Alexander Khaminsky, believes that the mechanism of their temporary blocking, which allows authorized bodies to instantly block a page with illegal content for three days, would help reduce the spread of "mirror" pages with illegal content^[8]

The number of blocked sites with prohibited content in Russia for the year decreased by 10%

The number of blocked sites with prohibited content in Russia in 2023 decreased by 10% compared to 2022. This is evidenced by the data of Roskomnadzor, published at the end of December 2023.

As Kommersant writes with reference to the materials of Roskomnadzor, in 2022 the department blocked or achieved the removal of 587 thousand materials, and in 2023 - about 529 thousand resources. Among them, the main categories in Roskomnadzor are materials with inaccurate information, including regarding hostilities in Ukraine, extremist and pro-drug content, as well as gambling.

In 2023, social networks removed more than 112 thousand illegal materials with suicidal, narcotic content, as well as child pornography, specified in Roskomnadzor. For comparison: in 2022, 98 thousand units of such content were removed. In addition, the service conducts off-register blocking using technical means to counter threats established by telecom operators under the law "on sovereign runet." In particular, access to popular public VPNs and Tor network nodes is blocked.

The number of sites that distribute prohibited information is limited, and the speed of emergence of new ones is low, commenting on Dmitry Ovchinnikov, chief specialist of the department of integrated information protection systems at Gazinformservice.

That is, the information field is gradually cleared. From a market point of view, blocked sites do not stop their work. They are simply not available in Russia. Those who wanted to bypass the bans have long learned to use VPN services, "he explained in a conversation with the publication.

Inna Twerezovskaya, head of the practice of freedom of information and reputation at DRC law firm, believes that the reduction in blocking is due to the fact that social networks and hosting sites are obliged to track and delete illegal information themselves.^[9]

Roskomnadzor blocked Shutterstock photo bank

At the end of February 2023, Roskomnadzor blocked the Shutterstock photo bank. The exclusive representative of photo banks in Russia and the CIS - Fotodom agency - explained that access to the service is limited due to "the placement of material that does not meet the existing requirements." Read more here.

Roskomnadzor began blocking sites for refusing to remove LGBT materials

In early September 2023, Roskomnadzor began blocking sites that refuse to remove LGBT materials. In a few days, 23 such resources were discontinued.

23 sites that did not comply with the department's requirements for the removal of prohibited materials are blocked. Of these, five sites are devoted to LGBT topics, 18 are sites of pirated online cinemas that distribute films with LGBT propaganda, RIA Novosti reported to Roskomnadzor.

On September 2, 2023, Roskomnadzor began blocking sites that will not remove LGBT content within 24 hours after receiving notifications from the department.

For the distribution of materials promoting non-traditional sexual relations in the media and on the Internet, the law provides for restricting access to information resources and services, as well as fines of up to a million rubles for citizens and up to two million for companies.

The order of Roskomnadzor with the criteria for propaganda of LGBT, pedophilia and gender change entered into force on September 1, 2023. According to the criteria, the material is considered prohibited for distribution, including if there is the following information: the formation of a distorted idea of ​ ​ the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations; building interest in non-traditional sexual relationships, justifying the advantage of non-traditional sexual relationships over traditional relationships; justifying abandoning traditional sexual relationships in favor of non-traditional ones; forming a positive attitude towards gender reassignment.

In September 2023, a form for complaints about LGBT and other prohibited content posted on the LGBT Network began to work on the Roskomnadzor website.

If you are faced with illegal content on the Internet, please send an appeal through a feedback form on the Roskomnadzor website: http://eais.rkn.gov.ru/feedback/, the agency's website says.[10]

In Russia, sites will be blocked for illegal recommendation technologies - a law has been signed

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law regulating the operation of recommendation algorithms on the Internet. The corresponding document was published on the official portal of legal information on July 31, 2023.

Under the new article "Features of providing information using recommendation technologies," owners of sites using algorithms for recommendations should inform users that they are using recommendation algorithms, as well as notify them about methods of collecting and analyzing user data, post information about the rules for using recommendation algorithms.

Also, resource owners should develop rules for the use of recommendation services, describing the processes and methods of collecting, systematizing, analyzing information related to the preferences of Internet users, providing information on this information, as well as ways to implement such processes and methods.

It will be monitored for compliance. Roskomnadzor For site owners who use recommendation algorithms to mislead users, spread fakes or otherwise violate Russian law, sanctions are provided up to blocking.

Also, a period has been established during which the owner of the information resource is obliged to fulfill the regulator's requirement to stop providing information using recommendations - 24 hours will be allotted for this.

From October 1 [2023], the first legislative norms aimed at regulating the product of artificial intelligence will begin to operate in Russia. I hope that thereby in this area the correct vector of informing users about how AI works and what data it collects, as well as state control over its legitimate application, will be set, "explained Anton Gorelkin, author of the initiative, deputy chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications in the State Duma.

Federal Law of 31.07.2023 No. 408-FZ "On Amending the Federal Law" On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection "

Blocking FBI and CIA sites

At the end of January 2023 Roskomnadzor , he blocked Russia access to sites, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as well as platforms for combating terrorism and counterintelligence. State Department USA

Access to sites is cia.gov, fbi.gov is rewardsforjustice.net limited, follows from the data of the universal service for checking access to sites of Roskomnadzor. When trying to go to the CIA website, the inscription appears: "The resource for this IP address is blocked by decision of state authorities," and on the sites of the FBI and the State Department platform: "It is not possible to access the site."

The press service of Roskomnadzor explained to RBC that "materials containing unreliable socially significant information" were found on these resources, as well as discrediting the Russian military.

On the basis of Federal Law No. 149-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection," Roskomnadzor limited access to a number of resources belonging to state structures of hostile countries for distributing materials aimed at destabilizing the social and political situation in the Russian Federation, the department said.

In June 2022, Vasily Piskarev, chairman of the State Duma commission to investigate the facts of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia, said that Russia would block the Internet portals of the US Department of State. He said that the resources of the State Department contain fakes that discredit Russian military personnel and a special operation in Ukraine.

Roskomnadzor later restricted access to the ShareAmerica State Department website, designed to disseminate information about US foreign policy abroad. The blocking was carried out at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia.^[11]

2022

Roskomnadzor reported an increase in the number of blocked pirate sites

In 2022, Roskomnadzor (RKN) received almost 20% more applications from copyright holders for copyright protection compared to 2021, as well as definitions of the Moscow City Court on preliminary blocking of resources for claims of owners of stolen content. This was reported in the department on January 23, 2023. Read more here.

Blocking 11,900 fraudulent sites

In 2022, 11,900 fraudulent sites were removed or blocked. This was Roskomnadzor announced on January 12, 2023. As the regulator noted, access to such sites is limited at the request of specialized bodies or by a court decision,

Roskomnadzor recalled that fraudulent resources are created mainly to steal money or personal data of users. Most often, attackers use sites that mimic the official sites of large financial organizations or online stores.

At the end of December 2022, it was reported that Roskomnadzor blocked more than 157 thousand fakes about a special military operation and calls for rallies. According to the deputy head of Roskomnadzor Vadim Subbotin, information stuffing was carried out on American social networks and through the resources of foreign non-profit organizations.

In 2022, the Ministry of Digital Development launched an anti-phishing system that will automatically identify fraudulent sites - copies of official portals of state organizations, marketplaces and social networks. The new information system is able to identify phishing sites on which scammers steal personal data of visitors, force them to download malicious software or sell non-existent services and goods, misleading buyers.

The system is able to track suspicious site activity and allows you to receive information about fake resources from third-party sources. It can also control new, re-registered and transferred domains at a rate of up to 1 million addresses per hour. All information about questionable resources will be entered into the database for phishing verification. Fraudulent resources will be blocked "with automated interaction of government agencies," the Ministry of Digital Development said.^[12]

Roskomnadzor increased blocking of sites with illegal calls to minors by 41%

In 2022 Roskomnadzor , he blocked 20,706 sites with information aimed at attracting children to illegal activities, against 14,658 in 2021 (thus, in 2022, the growth was 41%) and 4921 in 2020 (an increase of more than 4 times). The regulator published such data in January 2023.

According to Vedomosti, citing statistics from Roskomnadzor, the number of sites with information about methods of improvised manufacture of explosives and weapons in two years has decreased by one and a half times (from 4,500 in 2020 to 3,000 in 2022). What caused this dynamics of blocking, the department did not explain to the publication.

After identifying such sites with prohibited content, Roskomnadzor took measures. In particular, the materials were removed by site owners at the request of the department. Also, some resources were blocked at the request of the regulator by providers or telecom operators.

Irina Rukavishnikova, First Deputy Head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction, noted that the topic of protecting children from illegal content on the World Wide Web attracts a lot of attention in society. People are trying to help supervisory authorities remove such information from free access.

Numerous volunteer organizations assist government agencies in identifying prohibited and destructive content on the Internet, she said.

Earlier, Roskomnadzor appealed to all social networks, information resources and the media with a demand not to allow the dissemination of information "involving minors in illegal actions, calling for participation in illegal rallies, committing any actions with dangerous consequences for children."^[13]

Roskomnadzor in 2022 blocked 20.5 thousand sites of illegal pharmacies

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) in 2022 blocked about 20.5 thousand sites that were engaged in the illegal trade in drugs. For 2020-2022 The regulator for the appeal of Roszdravnadzor stopped the activities of about 45 thousand such resources, which he announced in February 2023. Read more here.

Roskomnadzor entered 384 thousand links in the Unified Register of Prohibited Information

In 2022, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) entered more than 384 thousand links into the Unified Register of Prohibited Information, 99.7% of which were removed by resource owners or blocked by telecom operators. The regulator published such data on February 17, 2023.

At the end of December 2022, the Government of the Russian Federation approved amendments to the rules of operation of the Unified Register of Prohibited Information of Roskomnadzor. The grounds for entering sites or pages of sites in the register included "LGBT propaganda," as well as "information promoting pedophilia or gender change."

TASS recalls that the basis for inclusion in the register is also the decisions of Roskomnadzor in relation to materials on the network with pornographic images of minors, information about drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances, methods of suicide and the manufacture of explosives and weapons, printed in the media and distributed on the network. In addition, the reason for entering the register may be the decision of Roskomnadzor in relation to information about a minor who suffered as a result of illegal actions, posted in the media and distributed on the Internet, as well as materials, the distribution of which was previously prohibited by the court.

Access to the registry is organized using the eais.rkn.gov.ru website, which, however, does not provide ordinary users with the opportunity to view the entire registry or part of it, it provides only:

• receiving a response whether a site or any of its pages is in the registry;
• submission of a message about a site containing prohibited information for further - inclusion of a resource in the register (you can report anonymously);
• receipt by telecom operators having a Russian license of full lists of resources included in the registry.^[14]

Bailiffs have the right to apply to Roskomnadzor with a court decision on sites with information defaming the honor and dignity of citizens and legal entities

On April 12, 2018, the State Duma adopted in the third, final, reading a law that gives bailiffs the right to block information on the Internet that discredits the honor and dignity of citizens and legal entities.

Now bailiffs can apply to Roskomnadzor to block such information if there is a court decision.

The corresponding amendments to the laws "On enforcement proceedings" and "On information, information technologies and information protection" were initiated by a group of deputies from United Russia.

The law is aimed at increasing the level of execution of executive documents containing requirements for the removal of information disseminated on the Internet that discredits the honor, dignity or business reputation of a citizen or the business reputation of a legal entity, the accompanying materials say.

The law provides: if a person who disseminates information that is not true, defames the honor, dignity or someone's business reputation, does not delete or prohibit the dissemination of this information within the prescribed period, the bailiff issues a decision to restrict access to such information.

The bailiff must within one working day send the relevant resolution to the federal executive body exercising the functions of control and supervision in the field of media, mass communications, information technology and communications.

"The adoption of the bill will help protect the rights and legitimate interests of persons whose honor, dignity and good name have suffered damage as a result of the dissemination of negative information that does not correspond to reality," the authors of the bill say.

According to the current legislation - Article 152 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation - if information defaming the honor, dignity or business reputation of a citizen turned out to be available on the Internet after their distribution, a citizen has the right to demand the removal of such information, as well as its refutation "in a way that ensures that the refutation is communicated to network users Internet."

"The application of liability measures to the violator for failure to comply with the court decision does not relieve him of the obligation to perform the action stipulated by the court decision," the explanatory note says.

Similar methods of protecting business reputation are provided to legal entities.

"The specifics of disseminating information on the Internet require special mechanisms in the legislation for the execution of court decisions, which is to ensure the implementation of everyone's constitutional rights to judicial protection," the authors of the bill note.

Blocking for posting inaccurate information and insulting the authorities

The State Duma raised the fine for posting inaccurate information on the Internet

On March 6, 2019, it became known that the State Duma adopted in the second reading a package of bills prohibiting the dissemination of inaccurate information on the Internet and insulting the authorities. The documents were developed by Senators Lyudmila Bokova and Andrei Klishas and submitted to parliament at the end of 2018.

We are talking about four bills. Two of them are amendments to the Law "On Information, Information Technology and" and information protection imply blocking access to the above types of prohibited information. The other two are amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO), introducing fines for disseminating this kind of information.

In the second reading, all bills were amended. Thus, the bill banning inaccurate information refers to blocking access to "unreliable socially significant information disseminated under the guise of reliable messages, which creates the threat of harm to the life and health of citizens, property, the threat of mass violation of public order and public safety, or the threat of creating the functioning or termination of life support facilities, transport or social infrastructure, credit organizations, power facilities, industry or communications."

The wording that was in the bill after the first reading did not say about credit organizations, power facilities, industry and communications. The Prosecutor General's Office will be engaged in blocking such messages. Blocking will be carried out immediately, and the site owner will receive a notification from Roskomnadzor only after blocking.

In the second reading, a separate rule was added on the dissemination of inaccurate information by online media (media) registered in Roskomnadzor. According to the statements of the Prosecutor General's Office, Roskomnadzor will deal with the removal of this kind of information from these sites.

Notification of the removal of inaccurate information will come from Roskomnadzor to the editorial office of the online publication, which will have to fulfill the corresponding requirement immediately. In case of refusal to fulfill the requirements, Roskomandzor will immediately have to block access to the website of the relevant media.

The revision of the amendments to the Administrative Code regarding fines for disseminating inaccurate information has also changed. In the second reading, the amount of fines for individuals increased. For citizens, it will be from 30 thousand rubles. up to 100 thousand rubles, for officials - from 60 thousand rubles. up to 200 thousand rubles. Thus, the size of the minimum fine for citizens increased 10 times. And for organizations, the amount of fines was reduced and it will be from 200 thousand rubles. up to 500 thousand rubles. The rule on confiscation of the subject of an administrative offense from organizations remained, but only as an option.

These fines will be applied if information is disseminated that poses a threat to the situations described in the bill. If the dissemination of deliberately false information entailed the creation of dangerous situations described in the bill, then the fines will be higher.

For citizens, the amount of the fine will be from 100 thousand rubles. up to 300 thousand rubles. with the possibility of confiscating the subject of an administrative offense, for officials - from 300 thousand rubles. up to 600 thousand rubles, for legal entities - from 500 thousand rubles. up to 1 million rubles. with possible confiscation of the subject of violation. Similar fines will be applied in case of repeated violation of the ban on the dissemination of deliberately false information that poses a threat of creating dangerous situations.

If the dissemination of deliberately false information caused the death of a person, the amount of the fine for citizens will be from 300 thousand rubles. up to 400 thousand rubles. with possible confiscation of the subject of an administrative offense, for officials - from 600 thousand rubles. up to 900 thousand rubles, for legal entities - from 1 million rubles. up to 1.5 million rubles. also with the possible confiscation of the subject of an administrative offense. The Prosecutor General's Office should be informed about all cases of such cases within 24 hours.

In the bill on blocking access to information expressing "obvious disrespect for society, the state, official state symbols of the Russian Federation, the Constitution of the Russian Federation or bodies exercising state power of the Russian Federation," this wording was expanded by banning information "that offends human dignity and public morality."

The Prosecutor General's Office will look for this kind of information and send it to Roskomnadzor. The version of the bill adopted in the first reading said that Roskomnadzor would immediately block access to such sites, after which their owners and hosting-providers will receive appropriate notifications.

The version of the bill adopted in the second reading says that Roskomnadzor will first notify the hosting provider that the site it serves has prohibited information. The hosting provider must transmit this notification to the site owner within 24 hours, who must immediately delete the prohibited information. Otherwise, Roskomnadzor will block access to the corresponding site.

Amendments to the Administrative Code, adopted in the first reading, envisaged punishment for insulting the authorities on the Internet in the form of a fine in the amount of 1 thousand rubles. up to 5 thousand rubles. or administrative arrest for up to 15 days. In the amended version of the bill, the amount of the fine will be significantly higher: from 100 thousand rubles. up to 200 thousand rubles. The possibility of administrative arrest for up to 15 days is also preserved. That is, the size of the minimum fine has grown 100 times.

In case of repeated violation, the amount of the fine will be from 200 thousand rubles. up to 300 thousand rubles. or the punishment will be the same administrative arrest for up to 15 days. The bodies of the Prosecutor General's Office must be notified of all cases of this kind within 24 hours.^[15]

Roskomnadzor blocked the site of the OKX crypto exchange

On October 5, 2022, it became known about the blocking of the OKX crypto exchange website. Roskomnadzor took the appropriate measures by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. Read more here.

Roskomnadzor entered the Wheely website into the register of prohibited information

In July 2022, Roskomnadzor entered the website of the Wheely premium car order service into the register of prohibited information. The regulator explained its decision by the decision of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow. Read more here.

Roskomnadzor blocked Proton VPN

In early June 2022, it became known about the blocking of Proton VPN. The fact that users of the service in the Russian Federation began to experience problems with access to it was first reported by the company itself, and Roskomnadzor then confirmed the introduction of restrictions. Read more here.

Roskomnadzor blocked the job search site Jooble

On April 4, 2022, it became known about the blocking of the job search site Jooble. This happened a few weeks after the service closed access to Russians and Belarusians, and also condemned the Russian special operation on. To Ukraine According to Roskomnadzor the registry, the Jooble site was blocked on demand on State Offices of Public Prosecutor March 25, 2022. The regulator blocked the Russian and Belarusian versions of the site. More. here

2021

Roskomnadzor doubled the blocking of pirated resources to 59 thousand.

In 2021, Roskomnadzor blocked by a court decision about 59 thousand pirated sites by a court decision against 30 thousand a year earlier. This, referring to the statistics of the department, was announced on February 9, 2022 by Kommersant.

The regulator associates the growth of piracy with an increase in population demand for digital content amid the growing popularity of remote work amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

According to WebKontrol, in 2021 the volume of pirated content in Russia increased by 24%. Analysts note that the number of "pirated" links in social networks and resources where users themselves share content has only doubled.

Group-IB for 2021 revealed 6 million links to pirated content in Runet, while in 2020 their number was 2.3 million. The number of sites hosting illegal content has also grown - from 21.7 thousand to 32.5 thousand. The number of domains used by pirates has more than tripled - to 197.6 thousand.

The increase in the number of resources blocked in court is due to the fact that pirates, in the face of tougher regulation, began to actively use methods to bypass restrictions, said Alexander Isaev, head of the automation department of the Digital Risk Protection Group-IB department, primarily the mechanism for constantly changing domains of different levels.

According to Sarkis Darbinyan, managing partner of Digital Rights Center, the rise of pirated resources is only partially due to an increase in the consumption of video content. He believes that for almost ten years of the fight against piracy, Roskomnadzor has not achieved significant success - "pirated content is still popular with Russians due to established habits or lack of the opportunity to buy a subscription to a legal service." Pirates create two or three new illegal resources for one blocked site, Darbinyan added.^[16]

Blocking Google Docs in Russia

September 15, 2021 in Russia began to block Google Docs. As the GlobalCheck project, specializing in monitoring the Russian Internet blocking system, said on its Twitter blog, the operation of the site is docs.google.com limited by the operators of MTS, MegaFon and Rostelecom. Read more here.

Roskomnadzor blocked the Superapteka.ru website for selling prescription drugs via the Internet

In mid-April 2021, Roskomnadzor first blocked the website of a large pharmacy chain for selling prescription drugs via the Internet. The work of the Superapteka.ru site belonging to the Erkafarm Group of Companies was suspended. Read more here.

Roskomnadzor uses new technology to slow down Twitter traffic

Russia uses new technology to slow down Internet traffic in the country, according to experts from Censored Planet. According to them, this is the first known case when the government censors Internet content by restricting the company's traffic rather than blocking access to its services ^[17]

We are talking about the slowdown of Twitter traffic by Roskomnadzor for non-compliance with the requirements of Russian legislation to remove illegal content. According to Censored Planet, for this the regulator uses TSPU (technical means of countering threats), which replaced SORM (a system of technical means to ensure the functions of operational-search measures).

SORM, consisting of special network devices installed in the data centers of telecom operators, allows you to block access to certain domains by adding them to the registry of prohibited resources. If there are court decisions and Roskomnadzor, telecom operators must change the appropriate firewall settings and block the traffic of these domains.

However, in recent years, it has become clear that such a blocking can be bypassed using proxy and VPN services. In addition, companies like Telegram have found ways to bypass blocking using a fronting domain (using different domain names at different levels of HTTPS connection to seamlessly connect to another target domain that is not noticeable to third parties that track requests and connections).

New TSPUs do not work the same way as SORM. Firstly, they are not under the control of telecom operators and are managed directly by Roskomnadzor. Second, the SRTs are deployed two steps closer to the end user than the SRM. Thirdly, these devices do not work as traditional firewalls, but rather as network DPI filters. DPI-based solutions allow you to see the contents of network packets and their real destination, even if the connection is encrypted using TLS.

As Censored Planet experts explained, TSPUs work by analyzing the SNI extension of the TLS protocol, thanks to which Roskomnadzor can determine which domain the user connects to before the connection is encrypted.

The Twitter incident is the first time TSPU has been used. According to experts, this explains why the first launch of the system was unsuccessful - too wide a filtering rule led to a slowdown not only in Twitter traffic, but in other domains.

Roskomnadzor slowed down all sites with "t.co" in the domain

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March 10, Roskomnadzor has decided to slow down the speed of the Twitter social network in Russia by 100% of mobile and 50% of stationary devices due to violation of Russian law by the resource.

The slowdown was hit by the Russia Today edition, the Microsoft.com domain, podcaster sites - Beardycast and Zavtracast, subdomains Github, Steam and others^[18].

A slowdown in other resources besides Twitter was discovered by^[19] user of the service and researcher of network locks under the pseudonym ValdikSS. 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, Valdik decided that other sites were slowed down due to the fact that Roskomnadzor limited some global CDN - a content distribution network that is used by many resources at once. However, then he 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 Roskomnadzor sites 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.

2020

Roskomnadzor blocked the site of the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance

On September 24, 2020, it became known about the blocking of the Binance website. Roskomnadzor entered the resource of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange into the register of prohibited sites, explaining this by the presence of information on the site that cannot be disseminated in Russia. Read more here.

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. The agency published the corresponding order on the portal of draft regulations.

Roskomnadzor will consider the basis for blocking the page "any image by any means of a child performing real or simulated openly sexual actions."

Also banned may be information "on the production, sale or storage of child pornography," "information about the involvement of minors as performers to participate in entertainment events of a pornographic nature" or information about them.

Another area of ​ ​ assessment of information posted on the Internet, which Roskomnadzor plans to apply when considering the inclusion of web resources containing it in the Unified Register of Prohibited Sites, concerns "methods, methods for the development, manufacture and use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances, places of their acquisition, methods and places of cultivation of drug-containing plants.

Data on the methods of committing suicide, calls for committing suicide will be blocked. Sites with certain information about a minor who suffered as a result of illegal actions will be banned.

Resources containing information that has already been recorded in the Unified Register of Prohibited Sites on any legal basis will be blocked. The ban may also include a site that, according to Roskomnadzor, has "descriptions of prohibited information," as well as a domain name, a site page pointer (s) or a network address that allows you to identify sites containing information prohibited in the Russian Federation.^[20]"

Roskomnadzor will block pirated applications for smartphones

On May 27, 2020, the State Duma adopted in the second and immediately in the third readings a bill to block pirated mobile applications. The innovation should come into force on October 1.

According to the new amendments to the federal law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection," Roskomnadzor will be able to block illegal media content not only on sites, but also in mobile applications within one day after the application of the copyright holder and by a court decision. In the original version of the bill, the responsibility for blocking was assigned to the authors of the applications and to telecom operators. Amendments to the second reading extended this obligation to application aggregators (in particular, the App Store, Google Play and Huawei AppGallery).

It follows from the text of the document that Roskomnadzor sends a notice of violation of copyright and related rights to the owner of the information resource on which the application is located, indicating the work, its author, copyright holder, name and owner of the application with the requirement to restrict access to illegal content. The information resource, in turn, informs the owner of the application within one working day, who must fulfill the specified requirements within one working day. In case of its refusal or inaction, the information resource is obliged to block the corresponding application no later than three working days from the date of receipt of the notification of Roskomnadzor.

It also establishes the obligation of the telecom operator to restrict access to the application after receiving relevant information from Roskomnadzor.

The authors of the bill were Alexander Yushchenko (Communist Party), Marina Mukabenova (United Russia) and Oleg Nikolaev (Fair Russia). More than two years have passed from the moment the bill was submitted to the State Duma to its approval in the third reading.^[21]

Russia blocked Ukrainian state website for the first time

For the first time, the Russian authorities blocked the Ukrainian state website. We are talking about the official Internet resource of the Ministry for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine. This was reported on April 20, 2020 by the department.

The website blocked Roskomnadzor upon the demand of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation. The reason, as stated in the statement, was the news about the concealment of infected with COVID-19 in Crimea and Donbass.

An article on the website of the Ukrainian ministry said that in Crimea and Donbass there is a shortage of tests for COVID-19, only officials and the military are allegedly checked, patients with relevant symptoms are diagnosed with ARVI, and doctors are obliged to not disclose information.

The ministry reported 10 thousand patients in the self-proclaimed republics (the administrations of the LPR and DPR themselves did not report such a scale). On March 30, 2020, the LPR reported on the first infected person, and the DPR still spoke about the absence of cases and a large stock of tests.

We are confident that the concealment of real data on the incidence of coronavirus by the Russian occupation "power" in Donetsk and Lugansk regions and in Crimea is just a reason to block the website of our ministry. The main factors of such actions are an absolutely specific position on the illegal actions of the aggressor country in the Ukrainian territories, neglect of international law, the Ukrainian Ministry of Integration said.

According to the ministry's statement, this is the first time that Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked the state website of another country.^[22] of the Russian ^[23]]

Although in 2016, at the request of the Tyumen prosecutor's office, the report of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance on the Holodomor was blocked, the site itself remains available to Russian users. Two more links were blocked by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the state sites themselves are available by April 22, 2020, unlike the Ministry of Integration website.

2019

Roskomnadzor introduces a mechanism that accelerates the blocking of prohibited content

Roskomnadzor, together with telecom operators, is introducing a new mechanism for obtaining information from the list of prohibited sites on operator networks. According to TASS, the Information Agency of Russia (July 2019), this mechanism will speed up the process of blocking illegal resources.

According to Roskomnadzor, the technology is already used on networks of about 850 large and trunk telecom operators. About 20 more operators are testing the technology on networks.

One of the main advantages of the mechanism is the ability for telecom operators to receive not the entire data array from the Unified Register, but only new or changed information. Thanks to this, the speed of response of operators to the requirement to restrict access to new sites or resources that have changed their network addresses is increased by five times.

Telecom operators can also switch to the new technology, on whose networks the traffic filtering systems previously tested by Roskomnadzor are installed. These include, in particular, the Equila, Barrier, EcoFilter, SCAT DPI, Carbon Reductor DPI, ZapretService, Tiksen-Block, ADM Filter, Ideco Selecta and Cyber ​ ​ Filter systems.

Operators using the above filtering systems will be able to implement a new unloading mechanism without individually modifying the traffic filtering systems.

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 Republic Office Roskomnadzor , Tatarstan the federal service of Roskomnadzor and JSC 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

According to the materials of the document, the requirement of the Office of Roskomnadzor in the Republic of Tatarstan No. 9633-04/16 of November 22, 2016 contained a decision to remove the delegation of the domain name огрн.онлайн. This decision was then appealed by Arsene Mirzayan, but her satisfaction was denied, as expressed in the demand of January 24, 2017 No. 08AP-7160.

The Arbitration Court of the city of Moscow, by a decision of June 13, 2017, decided to declare illegal the decision of the Office of Roskomnadzor in the Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan) to remove the delegation of the domain name of the огрн.онлайн; oblige the Office of Roskomnadzor in the Republic of Tatarstan to eliminate the violation of the rights and legitimate interests of Aresn Mirzayan by sending a decision to REG.RU LLC to cancel requirement No. 9633-04/16 of 22.11.2016. notifying you to resume domain name delegation огрн.онлайн. This decision was subsequently challenged in the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal of the city of Moscow and its decision of October 4, 2017 was upheld.

Domain delegation was restored on July 19, 2017. According to the plaintiff, the loss of site traffic caused by more than a half-year suspension of delegation led to losses in the form of lost revenue from advertising posted on the site. The plaintiff twice appealed to the defendants with pre-trial claims for damages, but the claims were not satisfied. In this regard, Arsen Mirzayan filed a lawsuit with the arbitration court.

Following the consideration of the case, the court decided to satisfy the claim in part and recover from the Office of Roskomnadzor in the Republic of Tatarstan, the federal service of Roskomnadzor jointly losses in the amount of 415 thousand 603 rubles, as well as the cost of paying the state duty in the amount of 11 thousand 312 rubles.^[24]

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