The President signed the law "on bloggers"

On May 5, 2014, the President signed the law "On amendments to Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of information" and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation on issues of streamlining the exchange of information using information and telecommunication networks".

On May 5, 2014, the law "On amendments to Federal Law "On Information, Information Technologies and Protection of information" and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation on issues of streamlining the exchange of information using information and telecommunication networks", included in the package "anti-terrorist" laws, called the "law on bloggers".

So In this way, amendments have been made to the laws on information and communications aimed at strengthening state control over the Internet. Server owners is charged with the obligation to notify Roskomnadzor of the commencement of activities, to store data on all user actions within six months after the end their activities and provide them to law enforcement agencies in cases where provided by law, as well as comply with the requirements for equipment and software and hardware tools to facilitate the operational-search activities.

Law also legally enshrines the term "blogger" (owner of a website or page on the Internet, access to which during the day is more than three thousand users who are not registered as mass media), who is obliged to open his real name, is endowed with duties duplicating the provisions of the law "On media" and is subject to inclusion in a special register.

Law seems to us contradictory, discriminatory and aimed at restriction of freedoms of citizens.

Sources

• Vladimir Putin signed the law on bloggers // Russian newspaper. 2014. May 5.