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President signs bill on sanctions for censorship of Russian media outlets into law

15:33 30/12/2020 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill envisaging restriction of access to Internet resources censoring Russian media outlets into law.

Putin enacts bill on prison terms for online defamation into law

14:19 30/12/2020 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill introducing prison sentence as punishment for online defamation into law.

Russian man fined $1,700 for publishing Nazi photos on Immortal Regiment site

15:23 28/12/2020 A court fined resident of Russia’s Kemerovo Dmitry Borodayenko 125,000 rubles ($1,700) for publishing photos of Nazi criminals on the website of the Immortal Regiment movement.

Cyber police to appear in Russia

17:03 21/12/2020 Russia’s Interior Ministry will include in its structure cyber police; such a decision has been already taken by Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Ministry’s Deputy Head Igor Zubov has said in his interview as part of the “Personally to Children” project realized by the country’s Child Rights Commissioner and Children’s Community Council.

State Duma committee backs social media moderation amendments

15:15 21/12/2020 The State Duma Committee on Information Policy on Monday supported amendments to a bill on the social networks’ obligations to moderate banned information.

Google fined over $40,000 for links to banned websites in search engine results

13:50 17/12/2020 A magistrate court on Thursday fined Google 3 million rubles (over $40,000) for failure to delete Internet resources containing information banned in Russia from the search engine.

People behind online defamation must be punished but not jailed - human rights body’s head

16:28 15/12/2020 Chairman of Russia’s Presidential Council for Human Rights Valery Fadeyev believes that authors of defaming publications on the Internet must be punished with a fine but not with imprisonment.

Bill on prison terms for online defamation submitted to State Duma

10:49 15/12/2020 A bill introducing prison sentence as punishment for online defamation has reached the State Duma.

Russian President urges to build up concept of human rights protection in cyberspace

17:17 10/12/2020 President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia’s Government and Human Rights Council would be instructed to build up in cooperation a concept of human rights protection in the cyberdomain.

Blogger detained for 2 months over girlfriend’s death from hyperthermia

17:24 04/12/2020 The Ramensky Court in Moscow on Friday detained blogger Stas Reshetnikov (Reeflay) for 2 months in a case over intended infliction of grievous bodily harm to his girlfriend resulted in her death.

Russia’s Human Rights Council member urges blocking of live broadcasts of violent content

12:05 03/12/2020 Bloggers broadcasting in real time incidents involving harassment of people need to be prosecuted, and such content is to be blocked immediately, Deputy Chair of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Irina Kirkora believes.

Illegal content removed from 188,000 websites with extremist information - Roskomnadzor

11:59 25/11/2020 This year, illegal content was removed from 188,000 websites publishing extremist materials, according to Russia’s communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.

Bill envisaging fines for failures to ensure Runet security reaches State Duma

12:47 24/11/2020 A bill seeking to introduce administrative liability for failures to ensure secure and stable functioning of the internet over the territory of the Russian Federation in case its national section known as Runet is isolated from the global network has been submitted the State Duma.

Bill on 3-day term for removal of personal data from social media reaches State Duma

15:57 20/11/2020 A bill on publicly available personal data entitles citizens the right to specify the duration of a period within which such data is permitted to be processed, according to the author of the document, member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Anton Gorelkin.

New case opened against Russian blogger convicted of justifying terrorism

10:58 20/11/2020 Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) asked the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow to arrest blogger from Tyumen Alexey Kungurov, who had been earlier convicted of justifying terrorism, as part of a new case in absentia.

Civic Chamber’s member urges to introduce criminal punishment for child cyberbullying

14:50 19/11/2020 Member of the Civic Chamber Commission on Development of Information Community, Mass Media, and Mass Communications Yekaterina Mizulina states it is necessary to capture punishment for public cyberbullying against minors in law.

Russia’s Civic Chamber member urges adoption of law to overcome foreign censorship

17:43 11/11/2020 It is necessary to develop the Russian legislation by imposing liability for online censorship practiced by Western internet platforms, First Deputy Chair of Russia’s Civic Chamber Commission on Development of the Information Community Alexander Malkevich believes.

Online interrogations to facilitate faster probes – Russia’s Public Business Ombudsman

13:14 10/11/2020 Online examinations of witnesses and victims may fasten preliminary investigations, as well as shorten times accused persons are kept in pretrial detention centers, Public Business Ombudsman, Co-Chair of Rost political party Alexander Khurudzhi believes.

Russian citizen fined over $450 for rehabilitation of Nazism

12:34 10/11/2020 A court in the Volgograd Region has fined a local resident 35,000 rubles (over $450) for publishing a comment condoning activity of Adolf Hitler on one of the social networks.

Moscow court orders closure of website selling exotic animals

10:45 06/11/2020 Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court has granted a prosecutor’s bid to block access to a website selling exotic animals, including Indian elephants and black widow spiders.

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