MOSCOW, April 7 (RAPSI) – Lawmakers Andrei Lugovoi and Vadim Dengin (Liberal Democratic Party) will submit a bill to the State Duma this week to assign media responsibilities to popular bloggers, Vedomosti newspaper writes.

They propose amending the law on information to oblige the owners of personal websites and social networking pages with a daily audience of over 3,000 visits to comply with the rules for the media, notably, to check the reliability of information, to act in accordance with election campaign rules (pre-election silence, a ban on publishing poll results in the last five days before voting day, etc.), not to publish private information about other people, and to indicate age limits for users.

The most popular personal sites would have to be registered with the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), which would notify users of their obligation to comply with the provisions of the law on the media.

And lastly, bloggers would have to pay taxes on their advertising income, which is currently not controlled and hence not taxable.