MOSCOW, August 4 (RAPSI) – The State Duma is expected to review a bill in the fall that would prevent government officials from using social networks from their work computers and mobile devices, Izvestia newspaper reports on Tuesday, citing First Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Vadim Dengin.

According to the MP, this draft law is aimed at enhancing government office system security in Russia.

“We have to understand that most social networks and clients, i.e. special software and applications, were designed by foreign, not Russian, developers, which means they can be used against Russia at the software level,” Dengin told Izvestia.

He went on to say that government officials “have no necessity to communicate by social networks using their work computers.”

“Blocking social networks also seems reasonable as a time-saving measure, since everyone has their own tasks and obligations, as well as in terms of securing internal systems,” the MP pointed out, adding that the initiative would not affect officials who use social networks to communicate with their constituency.

As an information war is unleashed against Russia, online social networking services could make its internal communications networks vulnerable to hacking into sensitive information, Dengin noted.