On January 14, the media reported that Apple and Likee became the first of the foreign services in the Russian Federation to begin to comply with the “landing” law. Apple has registered a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website, Likee has applied for this operation. In addition, an electronic form appeared in the Likee application and on the website for sending applications from Russian citizens and organizations. Likee also installed one of the resource attendance counters recommended by Roskomnadzor - MyTracker.
Likee explained that it is completing procedures related to opening a branch in Russia. Viber previously said it had agreed to open an office in the Russian Federation, but had yet to do so.
On November 22, 2021, Roskomnadzor published a list of foreign Internet companies that must open representative offices in Russia from January 1, 2022. This list of companies currently includes: Google, Apple, Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Likeme, Viber, Discord, Pinterest, Spotify, and Twitch.
In addition to the requirement to establish a branch/representative office/Russian legal entity from January 1, 2022, Russian law imposes a number of obligations on foreign entities. So, they must place on their website an electronic feedback form with Russian users, register a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website for interaction with authorities, install a recommended attendance counter on the information resource (the list of recommended attendance counters is determined by the RKN and posted on the main page of the site 236- fz.rkn.gov.ru), also foreign persons are required to restrict access to information that violates Russian law and follow the instructions of the RKN to remove prohibited content within 24 hours.
As of December 29, 2021, none of the foreign companies has opened its branch and announced, except for Viber, that it will do so in the near future.
For each company, the RKN website reflects the status of compliance with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation:
place on the information resource(s) an electronic form: not executed;
create a branch, or open a representative office, or establish a Russian legal entity: not executed;
register a personal account on the official website of Roskomnadzor: not executed.
Current enforcement measures from RKN to 13 companies: no enforcement measures are applied.
Possible coercive measures to foreign companies from the RKN:
a ban on the distribution of advertising of a foreign person and (or) his information resource as an object of advertising;
a ban on the distribution of advertising on the information resource of a foreign person;
search ban.
In early December, the head of Roskomnadzor announced that the department would not immediately restrict the work of foreign Internet companies without representation from January 1, 2022. The representative of the supervisory agency explained that the slowdown and blocking of foreign resources by the ILV is possible, but this will not be done without notification and discussion. In his opinion, the main thing is for companies to enter into a dialogue with the regulator. Foreign IT resources ready for cooperation will be able to deal with all the requirements of Russian legislation during the beginning of the year, even with the help of technical support from RKN specialists.
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