MOSCOW, August 12 (RAPSI) – Media and Communications Union comprising Russia’s largest communications providers drafted a bill obliging owners of messengers and mail services to identify users and delete prohibited information, Vedomosti newspaper reported on Friday.

Amendments are proposed to the Law on Mass Media and Communications law.

The bill stipulates that organizers of disseminating information on the Internet which afford an opportunity of electronic messaging exchange would be required to make a contract with communications providers and identify users relying on records from their data bases. They would be also obliged to block messages or publications containing information distributed in violation of Russian legislation, the newspaper writes.

Failure to comply with the requirements would result in restriction of access to a service on the resolution of Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor.

According to the newspaper, the bill will be presented to a working group headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov in the fall.