Article 10.2 of the Federal Act of the Russian Federation No. 149-ФЗ

Righty-ho, so ever curious, I tried Google and found this doc and requested a translated version:

Federal Law of 27.07.2006 N 149-FZ "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection"

I post it without comment (although, it might be nice if Lj would confirm that this is the relevant legislation and that this is the latest version of said legislation).

I've lifted Article 10.2. and put it under a spoiler cut, not from a sense of ironic whimsy (I'm not that clever), but simply because it's a bit unwieldy and a normal Lj cut unravels automatically when you access the post.

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Article 10.2. Features of dissemination by the blogger of public information

1. The owner of the site and / or pages of the site on the Internet, where public information is located and accessed by more than three thousand Internet users during the day (hereinafter referred to as the blogger), when placing and using the specified information, Including when placing this information on these site or site page by other users of the Internet, is required to ensure compliance with the laws of the Russian Federation, in particular:

1) to prevent the use of the website or the website page in the Internet for the purpose of committing criminal acts, for disclosure of information constituting a state secret or other secret specially protected by law, for the dissemination of materials containing public appeals for the performance of terrorist activities or publicly justifying terrorism, Other extremist materials, as well as materials that propagate pornography, the cult of violence and cruelty, and materials containing obscene language;

2) to check the reliability of the public information to be placed before its placement and immediately remove the placed inaccurate information;

3) prevent the dissemination of information about the private life of a citizen with violation of civil legislation;

4) observe the prohibitions and restrictions provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation on the referendum and the legislation of the Russian Federation on elections;

5) comply with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation governing the distribution of mass information;

6) observe the rights and legitimate interests of citizens and organizations, including honor, dignity and business reputation of citizens, business reputation of organizations.

2. When placing information on a website or a website page in the Internet, it is not allowed:

1) use of the site or page of the site in the Internet for the purpose of concealing or falsifying publicly significant information, dissemination of knowingly unreliable information disguised as reliable messages;

2) dissemination of information in order to discredit a citizen or certain categories of citizens based on sex, age, race or nationality, language, attitude to religion, profession, place of residence and work, as well as their political beliefs.

3. A blogger has the right:

1) freely search, receive, transmit and distribute information in any way in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation;

2) present their personal judgments and assessments on their website or website page on the Internet with their own name or pseudonym;

3) place or permit the posting on its website or page of a website on the Internet of texts and (or) other materials of other Internet users, if the placement of such texts and (or) other materials does not contradict the legislation of the Russian Federation;

4) distribute on a reimbursable basis advertising in accordance with civil law, Federal Law of March 13, 2006, No. 38-FZ "On Advertising" on its website or website page on the Internet.

4. The abuse of the right to disseminate public information, expressed in violation of the requirements of parts 1, 2 and 3 of this article, entails criminal, administrative or other liability in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation.

5. The blogger is obliged to place his name and initials, an e-mail address on his website or website page on the Internet, for sending him legally significant messages.

6. The blogger is obliged to post on his website or page of the site in the Internet immediately upon receipt of a court decision that has entered into legal force and contains a demand for its publication on the website or page of the site.

7. Owners of sites on the Internet, which are registered under the Law of the Russian Federation of December 27, 1991 No. 2124-1 "On the Mass Media" as online publications, are not bloggers.

8. The federal executive body, which exercises control and supervision functions in the sphere of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and communications, maintains a register of sites and / or pages of sites on the Internet, where public information and access to Which during the day is more than three thousand users of the Internet. In order to ensure the formation of the register of websites and (or) pages of sites in the Internet, the federal executive body, which exercises control and supervision functions in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technology and communications:

1) organizes monitoring of sites and pages of sites in the "Internet" network;

2) approve the methodology for determining the number of users of a site or page of a site in the Internet network per day;

3) have the right to request from the organizers of the dissemination of information in the Internet, bloggers and other persons the information necessary for maintaining such a register. The said persons are obliged to provide the requested information no later than ten days after receiving the request of the federal executive body, which exercises control and supervision functions in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and communications.

9. In case of detection in the information and telecommunication networks, including in the Internet, of sites or pages of sites where public information is located and accessed by more than three thousand Internet users within 24 hours, including consideration of the relevant Appeals of citizens or organizations, the federal executive body that exercises control and supervision functions in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and communications:

1) includes the specified site or page of a site in the Internet in the register of sites and / or pages of sites on the Internet, where public information is located and access to which within three days of more than three thousand users of the Internet;

2) determines the hosting provider or other provider of the site or site page in the Internet network;

3) notify the hosting provider or the person specified in clause 2 of this part of the notice in electronic form in Russian and English of the need to provide data to identify the blogger;

4) fix the date and time of sending the notification to the hosting provider or the person specified in clause 2 of this part in the relevant information system.

10. Within three working days from the receipt of the notification specified in clause 9 (3) of this article, the hosting provider or the person specified in clause 9 (9) 2) of this article is required to provide data allowing the identification of the blogger.

11. After receiving the data specified in clause 9 (3) of this article, the federal executive body, which exercises control and supervision functions in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technology and communications, sends a notification to the blogger about the inclusion of its site or page of the site in the register of sites and (or) site in a network "Internet" is hosted public information and access to which during the day is more than three million users network "Internet", with the indication is required Nij legislation of the Russian Federation applicable to this Site or the page of the site in a network "Internet".

12. In the event that access to the website or website page within the Internet for three months is less than three thousand users of the Internet within a day, this site or this page of the site in the Internet on the blog's request is excluded from Register sites and (or) pages of sites on the Internet, where public information is located and access to which within three days of more than three thousand users of the Internet, to which the blogger is sent a notice. The given site or the site page in the Internet can be excluded from this register in the absence of a blogger's application if access to this site or website page on the Internet for six months is less than three thousand users of the Internet within a day .


(Article 10.2 introduced by the Federal Law of 05.05.2014 N 97-FZ)

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