Under the vowel Roskomnadzor

Roskomnadzor prepared an order to execute the law on the ban on anonymizers and VPN. The document is published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

According to the document, services that will not block access to prohibited sites will be blocked within three days. Within one day, employees of the department will check whether the VPN service is connected to prohibited resources. If it turns out that such access was provided to users, this will be reported to the head of the department or his deputy all the circumstances of the violation. After that, the leader decides within two days whether to block the service.

Anonymizers are required to connect to a special system of Roskomnadzor. Their administrators must provide information about their owner, a network address for access to the system, login and passwords of access to the resource. More than 30 working days are allocated for the connection, which is initiated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB.

Two days to make a decision on blocking may not be enough, especially since the order does not imply a procedure for communicating Roskomnadzor with the service, says Artem Kozlyuk, head of the Roskomsvobod project.

On July 21, the Law on the ban on bypassing the site blocking was adopted in the third reading by the State Duma. On July 25, the document approved the document, and on July 30, President Vladimir Putin signed the law.

The law obliges the owners of anonymizers and VPN to independently limit their users access to resources from the register of prohibited, otherwise the services themselves are threatened by blocking. Also, according to the document, search engines will have to delete links to prohibited sites from issuing. The same law is abolished by the "register of bloggers" introduced in August 2014 and all the restrictions related to it are canceled.

The law comes into force on November 1.