Yandex at the request of Roskomnadzor began to mark some foreign sites as violators of the law

In the issuance of Yandex under the cards of sites that Roskomnadzor allocated among hosting that did not comply with the requirements of the Law on Landing, a note appeared “RKN: the site violates the law of the Russian Federation”. Atton Gorelkin, deputy of the State Duma, paid attention to this.

The parliamentarian also noted that the name of the site has a blue “checkmark”, similar to those that are issued by official or confirmed accounts on social networks. Later Gorekin found out that the “checkmark” indicates a high accuracy of compliance with the request. “My opinion: it would be much more clear if, instead of a blue tick, the violators of the law were put 🚫 🚫 🚫,” the deputy added.

This week, September 26, Roskomnadzor accepted in respect of another 12 foreign hosting providers “measures for comparing in the form of informing by search engines of Internet users about the violation of the requirements of Russian legislation by companies”. The list included the sites of Amazon Web Service, Network Solutions, Digitalocean and others.

The listed hosting providers did not register the personal account on the website of Roskomnadzor, did not post the feedback form for Russians, and also did not open the office in Russia. “The measures taken by an informative nature will act before the fulfillment of the indicated duties in full providers,” the department added.

Previously , Tiktok, Telegram, Zoom, Discord, Pinterest, Google , Apple, Twitter, Wikimedia Foundation were also included in the list. In total, Rokoskomnazdor considers the Russian law to violate 25 companies - their full list is published on the regulator website. The Law on Landing entered into force in July 2021.