27.09.2014
Roscomnadzor “Requests» Facebook, Gmail and Twitter to register in Russia
Roscomnadzor sent American internet resources Facebook, Gmail and Twitter notifications requested to register as” communicators “in Russia. On Friday September 26 the newspaper reported, “Izvestia”, the article which also says that if the American companies do not fulfill the requirements of the Russian legislation, they can be applied administrative sanctions.
In this case, the press secretary Vadim Roskomnadzora Ampelonsky said after the publication agency “Interfax” that the Office on these Internet companies “from the Russian law enforcement agencies and no request is received.” As explained Vadim Ampelonsky, it is not a legally valid petition, rather, it is advice.
«Formation of the registry is currently going through, mainly, Russian sites – in fact all the vanguard of the Russian segment of the Internet have registered in our service. With foreign exchange platforms going consultation, but because of the law enforcement agencies have not yet had queries about the registration of these services, then we are not talking about significant legal notifications that trigger compulsory registration “, – he said.
According Ampelonskogo, Facebook, Gmail and Twitter are free to create an “own initiative” without waiting for the requirements of law enforcement officers. “We calmly deal with the” Facebook “,” google “and” Twitter “, do not rush them and we press – we are waiting for them to take appropriate decisions. Question Time “- added official Roskomnadzora.
A spokesman for Roskomnadzora also said that in the registry offices as organizers of information dissemination have already registered Russian social networks and Internet sites, such as “Vkontakte”, Yandex, Mail.ru and Rambler.
At the bottom of the current action supervisor are amendments to the law “On Information”, which came into force on August 1. According to these amendments, the sites that handle correspondence network users must register and keep the correspondence users for six months, otherwise the organization faces a fine of 500 thousand. Rubles ($ 13 thousand. Dollars).
The amendments also introduced compulsory registration for popular bloggers – those whose audience is more than three thousand people per day. They will have to comply with the same requirements as registered media.
Major industry online marketplace “Habrahabr” was already in the registry, which gave a lot of trouble to its founder Denis Kryuchkov. According to the registration procedure, the site owner must apply through registered legal entity of public services online. “We have a registration was not, but to create it, you need a digital signature, which is done at least three days. In turn, to get the signature, you need to collect a bunch of documents “, – told the online edition of Kryuchkov Village.
Entrepreneur at Office received a reprieve. According to his calculations, additional equipment, which allows to fulfill the requirements Roskomnadzora, had to spend a million rubles.
The Director and owner of Liveinternet German Klimenko, in an interview with the Russian service “Voice of America” said that from a legal perspective Roskomnadzora requirements for Gmail, Facebook and Twitter are not mandatory: “The American company Google is primarily subject to the laws of his countries. American company Roscomnadzor, as I understand it, is not a regulatory body in the same way as it is not our legislature, the State Duma. ”
The owner of a large internet business believes that “the only cooperation that is possible between foreign companies and Russian officials, determined by international agreements and carried out by Interpol, when it comes to, say, drugs or child pornography.”
«Who is an example of that was closed at the request of the Russian authorities’ Twitter-Account” Humpty Dumpty, “which was the release of dirt on officials. But we understand that it really is just good will Twitter, that the owners of the account to the court on Twitter just did not serve, though, if filed, it is likely to win. In this case, Twitter has not provided our law enforcement agencies information about the owner of the account, “Humpty Dumpty”, “- says Klimenko.
Internet entrepreneur it is sure that the gain control over the internet in Russia did not begin with the resumption of the “cold war” with the West, but much earlier: “I think that Edward Snowden brought here a few examples of recruitment Russian citizens via the Internet, using the knowledge that, for example, obtained from Google. For example, you can quite easily get in Moscow pool of IP MoD officials. And based on this pool of IP, if you have access to the data of Google, you can catch the man, finding out that he sits in the workplace and seeking, for example, “to buy overseas property.” Or address issues of treatment of relatives in Israel, and you can determine that it is not enough money at the right time to roll to him. ”
As for the recent tightening in the area of the Internet, German Klimenko sure that the Russian government is simply not afraid of any deterioration of its image: “In many ways, the story accelerated events that are happening now with the Crimea, with Ukraine with sanctions. Our government apparently decided: Well, okay, if it still is bad, we will do everything at once. ”
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