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Basic state regulation of services for messaging is necessary, said the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. According to Interfax, the minister emphasized that the regulator does not set the task of blocking messengers. “There are no tasks for blocking messages to exchange messages. This is a distorting of facts,” Nikiforov said.

The need to regulate instant messengers in the Ministry of Communications was explained by security considerations. "It is obvious that information technologies are used, in particular, for the commission of unlawful actions. A great discussion is going on now in France after tragic events - how all this should be controlled in order to prevent the use of the instrument in the hands of terrorists. It is obvious that the states will introduce certain forms of regulation as the Internet grows. Freedom on the Internet does not mean impunity and lawlessness. But today is an accurate answer to the question of the question, as it is an accurate answer to the question. Internet communications should be regulated, there is no world in the country, ”the minister said.

According to Nikiforov, the issue of introducing the rules for OTT services will be considered on Thursday in New York as part of a higher level on the development of the information society. “Our task is to make Russia a modern, technologically developed state. The main thing is that any state regulation contributes to the development of legal, respectable communication methods that will positively influence the country's economy and, as a whole,” added Nikiforov.

On Wednesday, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that the agency is developing a number of proposals for regulating the activities of OTT services. "OTT operators must conclude an agreement with communication operators and perform restrictions acting for operators. The same mass mailing. These are not only messengers. These are cinemas and financial services," Zharov said.

He also associated the initiative with state security reasons. “On November 11 there was a massive newsletter in WhatsApp information that a certain number of suicide bombers was moving towards Moscow and Kazan, that there would be terrorist attacks and so on,” the official said. “As it turned out later, it was a clean duck, but there was a negative effect from it.”

Another consideration in favor of regulating the work of messengers Zharov called the interests of users. "All spam goes from SMS to the messenger," he said. According to the head of the RKN, instant messengers "must follow the same legislative restrictions that operate for communication operators." “If a massive newsletter is prohibited for the operator, then for them, too,” the official explained.

At the same time, Zharov called incorrect information about plans to limit the activities of Internet mixers in Russia. Such decisions, according to him, were "not made, is not made, and even in a dream we do not dream."

The bill regulating the activities of messengers in Russia was previously reported on Wednesday by Vedomosti . The document involves the inclusion in the laws "On Information ... and" On the Communication "of the Concept of" Information and Communication Services ". The developers of such services according to the bill should work in Russia only under an agreement with communication operators and notify about their work RKN. If the service violates the law, the rules for the provision of communication services or the contract with the operator, then the latter must block the pass of his traffic. The exchange of messages, according to the authors of the bill, should occur only between identified users.

As the publication wrote with reference to its own sources, the document was developed by the RKN on behalf of the presidential administration. The first deputy head Vyacheslav Volodin is responsible for interaction with the Internet industry in this structure.

In turn, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov assured that it was not planned to introduce any restrictions on the work of messengers in Russia.

In mid -November, the deputy head of the Constitutional Committee of the State Duma, Alexander Ageev, suggested that the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov consider the possibility of restricting the access of Russian users to the Telegram messenger if information about the use of this program is the Islamic State terrorists. In turn, the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov said that Telegram blocking will not help in the fight against terrorists, since there are more than 10 of its analogues in the world. Their simultaneous blocking is equivalent to turning off the Internet, which contradicts the development strategy of Russia, the official noted.