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The leadership of the social network Twitter agreed to transfer the personal data of Russians to the server in Russia by mid -2018. This was stated by the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov at the final meeting of the board of the department, according to the official website of Roskomnadzor.

Zharov read out excerpts from the letter of the Vice President Twitter on the issues of public policy in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Shineid Maksini from the letter of the Vice President. "We are in the process of determining what information about Russian citizens/organizations involved in the commercial relations of Twitter in Russia can be allocated for storage in the Russian Federation. We believe that we will be able to send these commercial data to Russia by mid -2018 and notify you about this by this time," the letter said.

On April 4, it was reported that the Rambler holding began transfer to the Russian jurisdiction of the Living Journal. LJ servers were transferred to Russia in December 2016.

On November 17, Roskomnadzor introduced personal data violators and blocked the Linkedin social network. The decision to block the social network for the refusal to transfer data from users to the territory of Russia previously adopted the Tagansky District Court of Moscow and the Moscow City Court. This was the first case of blocking a large social network in Russia.

The law on personal data requires to store information about Russian citizens in Russia. In the initial edition, the law signed by Vladimir Putin in July 2014 entered into force on September 1, 2016. However, later this period was shifted a year in advance , despite the negative reaction of the business community.