Communications

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About 517,000 crimes with use of infocomm technologies registered in Russia in 2021

By 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

Moscow court bans sales of 61 models of Samsung smartphones in Russia

The Moscow Commercial Court has banned the Korean company Samsung and its Russian division from importing, selling and storing 61 models of Samsung smartphones in the territory of the Russian Federation.

11:59 21.10.2021

Supreme Court upholds ruling in favor of Apple in dispute with Russian inventor

The Russian Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit lodged by businessman and inventor Artashes Ikonomov against Apple over alleged violation of his right to a utility model by a lower court.

17:32 10.08.2021

Access to socially important websites to become free of charge – law

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday enacted a bill on free access to websites of social importance into law.

12:59 02.07.2021

State Duma adopts bill on geolocation data use in search for missing persons

State Duma lawmakers adopted amendments to the Law Concerning Investigative Activities permitting the use of geolocation data in order to facilitate search for missing persons in the third and final reading on Thursday.

17:35 10.06.2021

Russia’s Civic Chamber seeks that telecom operators provided users’ geodata to rescuers

The Russian Civic Chamber has developed a list of recommendations the body believes are necessary to improve the efficiency of search for missing persons in the natural environment and to improve the accuracy of determining their location.

15:52 16.04.2021

Lawyers need permission to bring phones, cameras to detention centers – Chamber

The Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation proposes to allow councelors to bring technical communication equipment into the territory of detention centers, as well as devices that allow audio and video recording.

17:29 15.04.2021

State Duma introduces fines for sale of gadgets without pre-installed domestic software

The State Duma has passed in the third and final reading amendments to the national Code of Administrative Offenses envisaging fines for the absence of pre-installed domestic software on smartphones and computers.

16:00 16.03.2021

Russian lawyer challenges ban on carrying of mobile phones into detention facilities

Lawyer Oleg Krupochkin has appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation seeking to invalidate the provisions of two orders of the Interior Ministry prohibiting lawyers from bringing technical means of communication, as well as devices allowing audio and video recording, to the temporary detention centers.

16:10 11.03.2021

Bill on blocking of cellphones in penitentiary facilities becomes law

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill on termination of provision of communication services in penitentiary facilities into law.

10:03 11.03.2021

Russian President welcomes bill on use of geolocation data in search for missing persons

President Vladimir Putin has backed an initiative permitting the use of geolocation data in order to facilitate search for missing persons.

14:53 05.03.2021

State Duma approves bill on blocking of cellphones in penitentiary facilities

State Duma lawmakers have approved in the third and final reading amendments envisaging termination of provision of communication services in penitentiary facilities.

16:30 17.02.2021

Fines planned for CSPs failing to pass traffic from foreign satellites through Russian earth stations

A bill amending Russia’s Code of Administrative Offences to the effect that domestic communications service providers (CSPs) are to be fined if failing to pass traffic from foreign satellites through Russian earth-based stations has been developed, according to Chairman of the Association of Russian Lawyers Vladimir Gruzdev.

17:01 24.12.2020

Lawyer sentenced to 4 years for €819,000 from Dutch Finance Ministry’s account

International lawyer Yakov Melnikov has been convicted and sentenced to 4 years in penal colony for embezzling for €819,000 (over $33 million) entitled to the Russian Federation from the account of the Finance Ministry of the Netherlands.

13:39 18.12.2020

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

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.

12:47 24.11.2020

Civic Chamber urges refining of bill on data of missing persons provided by operators

Experts of Russia’s Civic Chamber have proposed to elaborate a bill on the data of missing people service operators are obliged to provide.

16:39 08.10.2020

State Duma Committee backs bill on use of geolocation data in search for missing persons

The State Duma Committee on Security and Anticorruption has backed a bill aimed at permitting the use of geolocation data in order to facilitate search for missing persons.

17:54 04.09.2020

Former regional IT Minister suspected of embezzlement, abuse of office

A criminal case has been opened against a former Kirov Region Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yury Palyukh suspected of abuse of office and embezzlement.

17:38 10.06.2020

Bill on blocking of prisoners’ cell phones reaches Russian State Duma

A bill to block cell phones illegally used by inmates and detainees has been introduced into the State Duma.

15:34 09.01.2020

Smartphones face Russian software installation starting from July 2020

On July 1, 2020, the law on obligatory installation of Russian software on certain technically sophisticated goods signed by President Vladimir Putin will come into force.

11:09 03.12.2019