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Ukraine demands another Russian TV channel’s ban

Ukraine’s National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting filed a lawsuit in court seeking the suspension of the Russian TV Center-International channel in Ukraine, according to the council’s website.

13:42 24.06.2014

Twitter agrees to block access to extremist accounts in Russia

Microblogging service Twitter Inc. has agreed to block access in Russia to accounts of about a dozen extremist organizations, including Ukraine’s Right Sector, head of the telecom regulator Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov told journalists.

17:27 23.06.2014

Opposition-minded online newspaper demands that court unblock its site

The online newspaper Kasparov.ru has filed a suit with the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow to overturn the decisions of the Prosecutor General’s Office and Roskomnadzor, which led to the blocking of the newspaper’s website, the plaintiff’s lawyer, Damir Gainutdinov, told RIA Novosti.

13:46 11.06.2014

Tajik authorities again block YouTube

Access to the YouTube video hosting service was partially blocked in Tajikistan on Tuesday, the chairman of the Tajik Association of Internet Providers, Asomiddin Atoev, told RIA Novosti.

10:19 11.06.2014

US authorities charge Russian national with hacking

The US Justice Department on Monday charged a Russian national, Evgeniy Bogachev, with committing cybercrimes, Reuters reports.

10:22 03.06.2014

Russian social media mogul Pavel Durov sues ex-partners over Telegram messenger

The founder of Russian social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, has filed a suit with a US court in which he accuses his former partners at United Capital Partners (UCP) of fraud and attempted extortion with respect to the Telegram messenger.

10:33 02.06.2014

EU citizens can now conceal their personal data from Google search

Last night, Google launched a new service for EU residents that allows concealing web pages with personal data from search results, AFP reports.

11:00 30.05.2014

Russian company sues US firm over Cyrillic domain name registration issues

Samara, Russia based Legato has filed a lawsuit with the Samara Region Commercial Court, requesting that US company Public Interest Registry be banned from registering zona.org (зона.орг) Cyrillic domain names, citing available registered trademarks.

15:28 29.05.2014

Germany wants Zuckerberg to testify in NSA case - report

Members of the German parliamentary commission, which is investigating the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) questionable activity, want the heads of US high-tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Google, to testify to the Bundestag, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

10:33 23.05.2014

Russian lawmaker proposes ban on foreign accounts for media owners

State Duma member Yevgeny Fyodorov has proposed banning owners of Russian media from opening foreign bank accounts, a rule currently applied to government officials. He made the proposal at a State Duma meeting on Tuesday.

15:03 20.05.2014

Websites can be closed even if they delete pirated content

A working group at the Communications Ministry is drafting a law to allow the courts to close websites that post pirated content even if they regularly delete it, Izvestia newspaper writes on Tuesday.

11:46 20.05.2014

New ‘Bloggers Law’ to embrace Russian bloggers based abroad – report

Popular Russian bloggers who post on Russian websites and write in one of the languages used by Russian nationals are subject to the new ‘Bloggers Law’ even if they live abroad, a government official told Izvestia on Friday.

13:01 16.05.2014

Suspension of Russian TV channels upheld in Ukraine

Kiev's Administrative Court of Appeals upheld suspension of four Russian TV channels in Ukraine, Head of the National Council of Ukraine on television and radio broadcasting Vladimir Manzhosov told journalists on Thursday.

16:31 15.05.2014

Russian communications regulator blocks several Ukrainian nationalist websites

Russian telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, has blocked the access to more than ten Ukrainian websites containing calls for mass riots in Russia, the Siberian Federal District Department of Russia’s Prosecutor General's Office reported.

10:52 28.04.2014

Former Russian Microsoft employee to be sentenced in US for data theft on June 10

Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee from Russia, who was charged with theft of trade secrets, to be sentenced in the US on June 10.

15:48 22.04.2014

Russian lawmakers mull constant volume level for programs and commercials

The Russian government has submitted a draft law to the State Duma that requires television commercials to have the same average sound level as the programs they accompany, the lower house said on its website Monday.

11:01 22.04.2014

Russia equates popular bloggers to media resources

Russian parliament on Friday passed the bill that would require bloggers with a daily audience of more than 3,000 people to take on full responsibilities of media resources.

17:39 18.04.2014

Putin answers Snowden’s question about mass online surveillance

The use of special equipment, in particular, for the tapping of private conversations and for surveillance, is regulated by law in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said when answering Edward Snowden’s question during the annual Direct Line program on Thursday.

16:48 17.04.2014

Education ministry proposes monitoring websites frequented by students

Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science has proposed monitoring the websites that are most popular among school and university students, reads a statement published on the government’s website of planned legislation on Thursday.

12:32 17.04.2014

Ukrainian court upholds suspension of Russian TV channels

The District Administrative Court of Kiev on Tuesday declined to revoke the temporary suspension of four Russian TV channels in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported from the courtroom.

16:09 15.04.2014