The bill approved by the State Duma in the I read is the norm reanimated since 2016, which provides for a ban on foreign ownership of more than 20% in the services of news aggregators. State Duma deputies voted in the first reading for a group of deputies repeated in October of this year together with Andrei Lugov, which forbids foreigners to own more than twenty percent of news aggregators.

The information becomes forbidden, encouraging children to “commit actions that pose a threat to the life and health of other persons, or a different involvement of children in the commission of such actions aimed at declining”. The legislation based on unverified information and promoted in the society of hysteria continues to expand.

The bills introduced by the President of the Russian Federation on partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provide instead of criminal administrative punishment for extremist statements on the Internet, if they were committed for the first time. The State Duma at a meeting on Tuesday adopted in the second reading the presidential package of bills on partial decriminalization of Art.

Support for the resolution was provided by the BRICS countries, the organization of the collective security agreement and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, but the United States and the EU countries opposed it.

Until January 17, both companies are required to provide “legally significant” answers about the need to localize users databases in Russia, otherwise they will be fined. Facebook and Twitter have not yet localized their users databases in Russia, they have been sent notifications about the need to comply with the law. Roskomnadzor is waiting until January 17, the head of the department Alexander Zharov told reporters.

If the court in Chelyabinsk accepts the lawsuit of the local coordinator of “Open Russia” Denis Ibragimov, the regional center “E” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will also act as a co -defendant. The Coordinator of Open Russia in Chelyabinsk Denis Ibragimov sent a statement to the court against the social network VKontakte, accusing it of illegally issuing his personal data.