The working group will discuss the cancellation of the "package of Yarova"

The expert working group under the government, headed by the Minister for Open Government Mikhail Abyzov, will discuss the possibility of canceling the so -called “Yarovaya Law” or amending it. According to Interfax, this was stated by the president of the Information Democracy Fund Ilya Masskh.

“The main reason for this discussion is that the petition for the abolition of the law on the website of the Russian public initiative gained 100 thousand signatures,” he explained.

The petition indicated that more than 5 trillion rubles will be required to build the infrastructure for the implementation of the Yarovaya Law. "

For comparison, the income of the federal budget of Russia in 2015 amounted to 13.7 trillion rubles. Also, this law contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation and is absolutely useless from a technical point of view. We ask you to cancel this law, since this law requires a lot of money .... and can lead to bankruptcy of many Internet companies and reduce the state’s income from taxes received from them, ”the initiative published on the ROI website says.

In July 2016, President Vladimir Putin signed the Law “On Amending the Federal Law“ On Combating Terrorism and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in terms of establishing additional measures to counteract terrorism and ensuring public security ”. The document was submitted to the State Duma by deputy Irina Yarova and Senator Viktor Ozerov.

“Anti-terrorism amendments” oblige operators and Internet companies to store text messages, voice information, images, sounds, videos, other user electronic messages up to six months.

Communications operators also must store information about the facts of receiving, transmitting, delivery of messages and calls within three years, Internet companies during the year.