Russian antimonopoly watchdog warns Google over terms on app developersThe Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has issued a warning to Google's Russian subsidiary, suspecting the company of abuse of dominance in connection with its allegedly adverse contractual terms applied to app developers using Google’s app store for distribution.14:25 04.07.2022
Number of appeals to Russian children's ombudsman increased by 2% in 2021The number of appeals to the Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia Maria Lvova-Belova turned out to be by 2% more in 2021 as compared with the same period of the preceding year.12:09 01.07.2022
Moscow court sentences Major General Melnikov to 7 years in prison for briberyThe Moscow Khamovnichesky District Court has sentenced Major General Alexander Melnikov, a senior officer of the Central Chief Directorate of the Interior Ministry, to 7 years in a strict regime colony in a case over attempted bribery on an especially large scale.17:35 30.06.2022
State Duma adopts bill on retaliatory blocking of foreign media in RussiaThe State Duma on Thursday passed a bill empowering Prosecutor General and his deputies to ban foreign mass media in Russia in response to hostile actions by foreign states regarding Russian media working abroad.14:15 30.06.2022
Native of Tajikistan sentenced to 9 years in Russia for abetting terrorismThe Southern District Military Court has sentenced a native of Tajikistan Fayzali Khalimkhonov to 9 years in high-security penal colony for facilitating terrorist activity.11:04 30.06.2022
Businessman gets 20 years in president’s residence construction embezzlement caseThe Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Forum Holding CEO Dmitry Mikhalchenko to 20 years in high-security penal colony for embezzling nearly 1.2 billion rubles during the construction of a presidential residence near Moscow.17:13 29.06.2022
About 517,000 crimes with use of infocomm technologies registered in Russia in 2021By the end of 2021, about 517,000 crimes committed using information and communication technologies (ICT) were registered in Russia, according to Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for International Legal Cooperation, Head of the Organizational and Legal Department of the Prosecutor General's Office Sergey Plokhov.15:59 29.06.2022
Global economy losses from cybercrimes estimated at $6 trillion in 2021Estimated losses of the global economy from cybercrimes accounted for 6 trillion dollars in 2021, Dmitry Bukin, Deputy Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s International Information Security Department, said during the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on Wednesday.12:44 29.06.2022
State Duma Chair proposes to estimate damage caused to Lugansk Peoples’ RepublicChairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin has proposed to calculate the damage caused to the the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) in cooperation with the region’s parliament.10:39 29.06.2022
President Putin signs law providing for legalization of parallel imports of goodsPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin has signed a bill providing for the legalization of parallel imports of goods into law.17:56 28.06.2022
Moscow court fines image sharing platform Pinterest $38k over data storageA magistrate judge in Moscow on Tuesday fined image sharing and social media service Pinterest 2 million rubles (about $38,000) over failure to localize Russian users’ personal data in the Russian Federation.14:45 28.06.2022
Russian Supreme Court pushes for streamlining procedures governing judges’ career advancesA plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has proposed to submit to the State Duma a bill that would allow judges to be assigned a higher grade without taking into account the place of work of the judge and without observing the sequence of assignment of grades.13:26 28.06.2022
Streaming company Twitch fined $38k for refusal to localize data of Russian citizensVideo streaming service Twitch Interactive was fined 2 million rubles (about $37,7k at the time of writing) on Tuesday for refusal to locate personal data of Russian users in the Russian Federation, the Moscow Tagansky District Court’s press service told RAPSI.12:44 28.06.2022
Russia imposes sanctions against members of U.S. President’s familyRussia has once more extended its retaliatory restriction list adding 25 Americans to it, including members of the family of the U.S. President Joe Biden.12:24 28.06.2022
Russia boosts sanctions against high profile citizens of CanadaRussian authorities have banned 43 more high-ranking Canadian citizens from entering the country.16:51 27.06.2022
Russia’s State Duma proposes to tighten responsibility for display of Nazi symbolsPropaganda or public display of Nazi symbols or paraphernalia may be punished with imprisonment for up to four years, according to an amendment to the national law on treason, introduced earlier to the lower house of the Russian Parliament. The State Duma Committee on Legislation and State Building recommended the document for adoption in the second reading.13:48 27.06.2022
Government pushes for development of Russian app storeRussia's government has submitted a bill requiring the development of a Russian mobile app store and its pre-installation on electronic devices and smartphones to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.15:10 23.06.2022
Bill on liability for digital rights violation submitted to Russia’s State DumaChairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market Anatoly Aksakov has introduced a bill to supplement the national Code of Administrative Offenses with an article on the violation of digital rights before the lower house of Russia's parliament.12:45 23.06.2022
Russian woman sentenced to 11 years behind bars for abetting terrorismThe South District Military Court has sentenced Russian national Darya Bolgova to 11 years in penal colony for abetting terrorism and participating in a terrorist organization.10:25 23.06.2022
Russian prosecutors seek qualification of WWII massacres in Belgorod region as genocideThe Russian Prosecutor General's Office has petitioned the Belgorod Regional Court to recognize the massacres committed by the Nazis on the territory of the Belgorod Region during the Great Patriotic War as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide of the Soviet people.17:40 22.06.2022