To do this, a tender was put up on the public procurement website for the acquisition of "Automated collection and linguistic analysis of data from the Internet." Conducting the next monitoring of the public procurement site, Roskomsvoboda discovered a tender from Ugra this time-the administration of the city of Khanty-Mansiysk wants to purchase software that will help to track the activity of bloggers, evaluate their popularity among users, as well as to collect the data of interest to the

Representatives of human rights organizations, journalists, lawyers, public figures, as well as defendants in criminal cases for reposts, appreciated the amendments proposed by Vladimir Putin in the “anti-Extremist” legislation. After the Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced to the State Duma bills No. 558351-7 and No. 558345-7, mitigating the punishment for “extremism” on the Internet, many experts and public figures gave their assessment to this initiative.

By the end of 2018, the State Duma intends to adopt 9 laws on the development of the Russian digital economy, which will also apply to cryptocurrencies.