The State Duma will consider the bill introducing a direct ban on publication by bloggers of any information about narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, plants containing them, and precursors. The corresponding bill was introduced on March 10 by the Volgograd Regional Duma.

The largest Russian Internet companies Mail.ru Group, Rambler & Co, as well as, possibly, Yandex and other domestic Internet-Mastodonts generally support the idea of ​​introducing the so-called “Google tax” in Russia-value added tax (VAT) from Russia's services like Google and Apple, the participants say, the participants say meetings on the discussion of the bill, which has already passed the first reading in the State Duma.