Viktor Kaluzhskiy, a lawyer in the intellectual property practice

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Foreign companies that own large information platforms have been repeatedly held liable for violating Russian legislation in the information sphere. At the end of 2021, Google LLC was found guilty of repeated failure to remove information from the Internet. The court imposed an administrative fine of 7.2 billion rubles. In 2022, an administrative fine of 21.8 billion rubles was imposed for the same offense. According to Roskomnadzor, the company paid the fine.

at Capital Legal Services, noted jamaica whatsapp number database that foreign social networks most often pay fines for non-compliance with Russian legislation, but such payment is made forcibly with the involvement of the Federal Bailiff Service, which requires a lot of time and effort.

According to Viktor Kaluzhsky, failure of foreign social networks to comply with the law on self-control cannot formally lead to the blocking of social networks - the articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, to which Roskomnadzor refers, do not contain such sanctions, but there is the Federal Law of 01.07.2021 No. 236-FZ "On the activities of foreign persons in the information and telecommunications network "Internet" on the territory of the Russian Federation", or the so-called landing law.

The Landing Law requires some foreign IT companies, including social networks, to open a representative office in Russia, register a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website, and also place an electronic form on their websites for user requests.

"For failure to comply with the law on landing, a stricter penalty has been established, up to and including complete blocking of the Internet resource. Considering that most social networks do not comply with both laws at once - both on self-control and on landing - hypothetically this gives Roskomnadzor grounds to block such resources. However, in practice, such a measure has not yet been applied: so far, Roskomnadzor is limiting itself to the mildest measure and requires search engines to indicate that "the foreign owner of the resource is violating the law of the Russian Federation," added Viktor Kaluzhsky