FEDERAL LAW  
NO. 149 -FZ OF JULY 27, 2006  
ON INFORMATION, INFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND THE PROTECT ION OF 
INFORMATION  
(with the Amendments and Additions of July 27, 2010, April 6, July 21, 2011, July 
28, 2012, April 5, June 7, July 2, December 28, 2013, May 5, July 21, 2014)  
 
Passed by the State Duma on July 8, 2006  
Approved by the Federation Council on July 14, 2006  
 
Article 1 . Scope of this Federal Law  
1. This Federal Law regulates relations arising in:  
1) exercising the right to search, receipt, transfer, production and dissemination of 
information;  
2) applying informational technologies;  
3) ensuring protection of information.  
 
2. The provisions of this Federal Law shall not apply to relations arising in the legal 
protection of the results of intellec tual activity and means of individualisation equated 
thereto, save the cases envisaged by the present Federal Law.  
 
Article 2 . Basic Notions Used in this Federal Law  
This Federal Law uses the following basic notions:  
1) information  means d ata (messages, data) irrespective of the form of their 
presentation;  
2) informational technologies  means processes, methods of search, collection, 
storage, processing, provision, dissemination of information and means of 
implementation of those  processes and methods;  
3) informational system  means a totality of information contained in the data -
bases and informational technologies and technical facilities providing for its processing;  
4) information -telecommunications netw ork means a technological system 
designed to transmit through communications lines information to which access is 
effected using computing technique facilities;  
5) the holder of information  means a person who by its own created information 
or obtained on the basis of law or contract the right to allow or restrict the access to 
information identified by certain features;  
6) access  to information means the possibility to receive and use information;  
7) the confidentiality o f information  means the requirement which is binding 
upon the person who acquired access to certain information not to transfer that 
information to any third persons without the consent thereto of its holder;  
8) provision of information  means a ctions directed at obtaining information by a 
certain group of persons or transfer of information to a certain group of persons;  
9) dissemination of information  means actions directed at obtaining information 
by an unlimited group of persons or  transfer of information to an unlimited group of 
persons;  10) electronic message  means information either transmitted or received by the 
user of the information - telecommunications network;  
11) documented information  means info rmation that is recorded on a tangible 
medium by documenting featuring the essential requisites making it possible to identify 
that information or, in cases specified under the legislation of the Russian Federation, its 
tangible medium;  
11.1) electr onic document means documented information presented in electronic 
form, that is, in a form which is fit for human perception with the use of computers, as well 
as for transmittance via information telecommunication networks or for processing in 
informatio n systems;  
12) operator of informational system  means a citizen or legal entity conducting 
activity associated with the operation of informational system, including that involved in 
the processing of information contained in its data -bases.  
13) an Internet site  is the totality of computer programmes and other information 
contained in an information system to which access is provided through the Internet 
(hereinafter referred to as the Internet) by way of using domain names and/or network 
addre sses enabling to identify sites on the Internet;  
14) a site page in the Internet network (hereinafter referred to as an Internet 
page)  is a part of the Internet accessible on the basis of an indication consisting of the 
domain name and symbols defined by the owner of an Internet site;  
15) the domain name  is a designation made by symbols which is intended for 
addressing sites on the Internet for the purpose of providing access to the information 
placed on the Internet;  
16) the network address  is the identifier in a data communications network 
enabling to find the user terminal and other communication means forming part of an 
information system when rendering telematic communication services;  
17) the owner of an Internet site  is the person whic h independently or at the own 
discretion thereof defines a procedure for using the Internet site, in particular a procedure 
for inserting information on such site;  
18) the hosting provider  is the person engaged in rendering the services involved  
in providing the computational power for inserting information in an information system 
which is connected to the Internet on a permanent basis.  
19) the comprehensive identification and identity verification system , this 
being the federal state informatio n system in respect of which a procedure for its use 
shall be established by the Government of the Russian Federation and which shall 
provide, where it is established by the Government of the Russian Federation, an 
authorised access to the information cont ained in information systems.  
 
Article 3 . Principles of the Legal Regulation of Relations in the Sphere of 
Information, Informational Technologies and Protection of Information  
The legal regulation of relations arising in the sphere on informati on, informational 
technologies and protection of information is based on the following principles:  
1) freedom of search, receipt, transfer, production and dissemination of information 
by any legal means;  
2) imposition of restrictions on t he access to information only by federal laws;  
3) the openness of information on the activity of state bodies and local self -government bodies a free access to that information, except for the cases specified under 
federal laws;  
4) the equality of languages of the nations of the Russian Federation in setting up 
information systems and their operation;  
5) ensuring the security of the Russian Federation in setting up information 
systems , their operation and protection of information contained therein;  
6) the accuracy of information and the timeliness of provision of same;  
7) the inviolability of private life, impermissibility of collection, storage, use and 
dissem ination of information on the private life of a person without his or her consent 
thereto;  
8) impermissibility of institution by statutory legal acts of any privileges for the use 
of certain information technologies over others, unless the nece ssity of using certain 
information technologies to set up and operate state informational systems is prescribed 
by federal laws.  
 
Article 4 . The Legislation of the Russian Federation on Information, Information 
Technologies an d the Protection of Information  
1. The legislation of the Russian Federation Article on information, information 
technologies and protection of information is based on the Constitution  of the Russian 
Federation, international agreements of the Russian Federation and consists of this 
Federal Law and other fe deral laws regulating the relations on the use of information.  
2. Legal regulation of relations connected with the organisation and operation of 
mass media shall be effected in accordance with the legislation  of the Russian 
Federation on mass media.  
3. The procedure for storing and using the documented infor mation included as 
part of the archives funds shall be established by the legislation  on the ar chives -keeping 
in the Russian Federation.  
 
Article 5 . Information as an Object of Legal Relations  
1. Information may be an object of public, civil and other legal relations. Information 
may be freely used by any per son and be transferred by one person to another person, 
unless federal laws impose restrictions on the access to information or any other 
requirements for the procedure of provision or dissemination of same.  
2. Information shall, depending on t he category of access thereto, be divided into 
generally accessible information and also information the access to which is restricted by 
federal laws (information of limited access).  
3. Information shall, depending on the procedure for provisi on or dissemination of 
same, be divided into:  
1) information that is freely disseminated;  
2) information provided by agreement of persons involved in the relevant relations;  
3) information that shall be provided or disseminated under federal laws;  
4) information the dissemination of which in the Russian Federation is restricted or 
prohibited.  
4. The legislation of the Russian Federation  may specify types of information 
depending on its content or the holder thereof.  
 Article 6 . Holder of Information  
1. The holder of information may be a citizen (an individual), legal entity, the 
Russian Federation, a s ubject of the Russian Federation or a municipal entity.  
2. The powers of the holder of information shall, on behalf of the Russian 
Federation, a subject of the Russian Federation or municipal entity, be exercised by state 
bodies and local self -government bodies accordingly within the limits of their respective 
powers established under appropriate statutory legal acts.  
3. The holder of information shall, unless otherwise envisaged un der federal laws, 
have the right:  
1) to allow or restrict access to information, determine the procedure and terms of 
that access;  
2) to use information, including to disseminate it, at his or her discretion;  
3) to transfer information to other persons under a contract or on other legally -
established grounds;  
4) to protect by legally established means his or her rights in the case of illegal 
receipt of information or illegal use of same by other persons ; 
5) to undertake other actions involving information or to allow the undertaking of 
those actions.  
4. The holder of information shall, while performing his or her obligations, be 
obligated:  
1) to observe the rights and legitimate interests of other persons;  
2) to undertake measures towards protection of information;  
3) to restrict an access to information when such obligation is established under 
federal laws.  
 
Article 7 . Gener ally Accessible Information  
1. Generally accessible information shall include data of common knowledge and 
other information to which access is not restricted.  
2. Generally accessible information may be used by any persons at their d iscretion, 
subject to the restrictions established by federal laws in relation to dissemination of that 
information.  
3. The holder of information which has become generally accessible by his or her 
decision shall be entitled to demand that the persons disseminating that information 
identify themselves as a source of that information.  
4. The information placed by the holders thereof on the Internet in the format 
enabling its automated processing without its preliminary alteration by a perso n for the 
purpose of its repeated use shall be deemed generally accessible information placed in 
the form of public data.  
5. Information in the form of public data shall be placed on the Internet subject to 
the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation on state secret. Where the 
placement of information in the form of public data can lead to the divulgence of data 
constituting state secret, the placement of the cited information in the form of public data 
must be terminat ed on demand of the body vested with the authority involved in the 
disposal of such data.  
6. If the placement of information in the form of public data can entail a violation of 
the rights of holders of the information access to which is restricted in com pliance with federal laws or a violation of the rights of the subjects of personal data, the placement of 
the cited information in the form of personal data must be terminated by a court decision. 
If information in the form of public data is placed in defi ance of the requirements of 
Federal Law  No. 152 -FZ of July 27, 2006 on Personal Data, the placement of the 
information in the form of public data must be suspende d or terminated on demand of the 
authorized body engaged in the protection of the rights of the subjects of personal data.  
 
Article 8 . Right to Access to Information  
1. Citizens (individuals) and organisations (legal entities) (hereinafter  referred to as 
organisations) shall have the right to carry out searching and receipt of any information in 
any form and from any sources subject to the requirements established by this Federal 
Law and other federal laws.  
2. Citizen (an indivi dual) shall have the right to receive from state power bodies, 
local self -government bodies and their officials in the procedure established under the 
legislation  of the Russian Federation information directly affecting his or her rights  and 
freedoms.  
3. Organisation shall have the right to receive from state power bodies, local self -
government bodies information directly affecting the rights and obligations of that 
organisation and also information required in view of interac tion with those bodies as that 
organisation conducts its authorised activity.  
4. No restrictions may be imposed on access to:  
1) statutory legal acts affecting the rights, freedoms and obligations of person and 
citizen and also those establishing legal status of organisations and the powers of state 
power bodies and local self -government bodies;  
2) information on th e state of the environment;  
3) information on the activity of state power bodies and local self -government 
bodies and also on the use of budgetary funds (except for data constituting state  or 
official secrets ); 
4) information ac cumulated in the open funds of libraries, museums and archives 
and also in state, municipal and other informational systems set up or intended to provide 
citizens (individuals) and organisations with such information;  
5) other information the  impermissibility of restriction on the access to which is 
established by federal laws.  
5. The state bodies and local self -government bodies shall be obligated to provide 
access, in particular with the use of information telecommunication systems, i ncluding the 
Internet, to information on their activity both in the Russian language and in a national 
language of a corresponding constituent republic of the Russian Federation as is 
envisaged under federal laws, laws of the subjects of the Russian Federa tion and 
statutory legal acts of local self -government bodies. Person wishing to receive access to 
that information shall not be obligated to prove the necessity of receipt of same.  
6. Decisions and actions (inaction) of state bodies and local self -government 
bodies, of public associations and officials infringing upon the right to access information 
may be appealed before a superior body or a superior official or in court.  
7. In instances when illegal denial o f access to information, untimely supply of 
information, provision of knowingly inaccurate information or information not 
corresponding to the content of inquiry for information has resulted in the infliction of losses, those losses shall be reimbursed in accordance with civil legislation . 
8. No charge shall be imposed on the supply of information:  
1) on the activity of state power bodies and local self -government bodies sited by 
those organisations on information -telecommunications  networks;  
2) affecting the rights and obligations of interested persons established under the 
legislation of the Russian Federation;  
3) other information specified under the law.  
9. The fixing of  a charge for supply by a state authority or local self -government 
body of information on their activity shall be made only in the instances and on the 
conditions specified under federal laws.  
 
Article 9 . Restriction of Access to Information  
1. Restriction of access to information shall be established by federal laws for the 
purposes of protecting the basic foundations of the constitutional system, morality, health, 
rights and legitimate interests of other persons, ensuring the defence s of the country and 
security of the state.  
2. Observing the confidentiality of information to which access is restricted under 
federal laws shall be obligatory.  
3. Protection of information constituting a state secret  shall be such  as is 
envisaged under the legislation  of the Russian Federation on state secrets.  
4. The federal laws shall specify the conditions for categorising information as data 
constituting commercial secrets , official secrets  and ot her secrets, the necessity to 
observe the confidentiality of that information and also responsibility for disclosure of 
same.  
5. Information received by citizens (individuals) as they perform their professional 
duties or by organisations as the y conduct certain types of activity (professional secrets) 
shall be subject to protection in instances when those persons are placed under an 
obligation under Federal Laws to observe the confidentiality of such information.  
6. Information const ituting a professional secret may be provided to third persons 
in accordance with federal laws and/or by court decision.  
7. The period for fulfilling the obligations to observe the confidentiality of 
information constituting a professional secr et may be restricted only with the consent 
thereto of a citizen (an individual) who provided such information about himself or herself.  
8. It is prohibited to demand that a citizen (an individual) supply information on his 
or her private life, including information constituting a personal or family secret and to 
obtain such information against the will of a citizen (an individual), unless otherwise is 
envisaged under federal laws.  
9. The procedure for access to the personal data of c itizens (individuals) shall be 
established by Federal Law  on Personal Data.  
 
Article 10 . Dissemination of Information or Supply of Information  
1. Dissemination of information in the Russian Federation shall be effecte d freely 
subject to the requirements established under the legislation of the Russian Federation.  
2. Information disseminated without using mass media shall include true data on its 
holder or on other person disseminating the info rmation and in the form and volume 
which is sufficient for identification of that person.  3. In using to disseminate information the means making it possible to identify 
recipients of information, including items of mail and electronic messages, a person 
disseminating information shall be obligated to provide a recipient of information with the 
poss ibility to refuse such information.  
4. The provision of information shall be effected in the procedure that shall be 
established by agreement of the persons involved in exchange of information.  
5. Instances of and conditions for  the obligatory dissemination of information or 
provision of information, including supply of obligatory copies of documents shall be such 
as established under Federal Laws . 
6. It is prohibited to disseminate information which is aimed at the  propaganda of 
war, inciting national, racial or religious hatred and hostility and also other information the 
dissemination of which is subject to criminal  or administrative  responsibility.  
 
Article 10.1.  The Duties of an Organiser of Dissemination of Information on the 
Internet  
1. Organiser of dissemination of information on the Internet is a person pursuing 
the activity of ensuring the operation of information systems and/or computer software 
which are intended and/or used to receive, transmit, deliver and/or process electronic 
messages of users of the Internet.  
2. In the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation an 
organiser of dissemination of information on the Internet shall notify the federal executive 
governmental body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of 
mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom of the 
commence ment of the activity specified in Part 1  of the present article.  
3. The organiser of dissemination of information on the Internet shall store on the 
territory of the Russian Federation information about the facts of reception, transmissio n, 
delivery and/or processing of voice information, written text, images, sounds or other 
electronic messages of users of the Internet and information about these users for six 
months after the end of such actions and also provide said information to the e mpowered 
state bodies carrying out operative investigation activities or ensuring the security of the 
Russian Federation in the cases established by federal laws.  
4. The organiser of dissemination of information on the Internet shall ensu re the 
implementation of the requirements established by the federal executive governmental 
body in the field of telecom by agreement with the empowered state bodies carrying out 
operative investigation activities or ensuring the security of the Russian Fe deration as 
applicable to the equipment and software/hardware used by said organiser in the 
information systems operated by it so that these bodies implement measures in the 
cases established by federal laws for the purpose of fulfilling the tasks vested i n them, 
and also shall take measures for preventing the disclosure of the organisational and 
tactical techniques used to implement these measures. The procedure for interaction of 
organisers of dissemination of information on the Internet with the empowere d state 
bodies carrying out operative investigation activities or ensuring the security of the 
Russian Federation shall be established by the Government of the Russian Federation.  
5. The duties envisaged b y the present article shall not extend to the operators of 
state information systems, the operators of municipal information systems, the telecom 
operators that provide communication services under a relevant licence, in as much as licensable activities ar e concerned and also they shall not extend to the citizens (natural 
persons) who pursue the activities specified in Part 1 of the present article for personal, 
family and household needs. For the purposes of applying the provisions of the present 
article t he Government of the Russian Federation shall define a list of personal, family 
and household needs in the event of pursuance of the activities specified in Part 1 of the 
present article.  
6. The composition of the information that is subj ect to storage under Part 3  of the 
present article, the place and the rules for the storage thereof, the procedure for the 
provision thereof to the empowered state bodi es carrying out operative investigation 
activities or ensuring the security of the Russian Federation, and also the procedure for 
exercising control over the activities of organisers of dissemination of information on the 
Internet which are relating to the  storage of such information and the federal executive 
governmental body empowered to exercise that control shall be defined by the 
Government of the Russian Federation.  
 
Article 10.2.  The Details of Dissemination of Generally Accessible Informati on by a 
Blogger  
1. The owner of a website and/or a website page on the Internet on which 
generally accessible information is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of 
the Internet per day (hereinafter referred to as "blogger") when said in formation is placed 
and used, for instance when said information is placed on the given website or website 
page by other users of the Internet shall ensure the observance of the legislation of the 
Russian Federation, for instance:  
1) sha ll not allow the website or website page on the Internet to be used for the 
purpose of committing the acts punishable under a criminal law, disclosing the 
information classified as state or another specifically law -protected secret, disseminating 
the mater ials containing public appeals for carrying out terrorist activities or publicly 
justifying terrorism, other extremist materials and also the materials propagating 
pornography, the cult of violence and cruelty and the materials containing obscene 
language;  
2) shall verify the reliability of placed generally accessible information before it is 
placed and shall immediately delete unreliable information that has been placed;  
3) shall not allow the dissemination of inform ation about the private life of a citizen 
in breach of the civil legislation ; 
4) shall observe the bans and restrictions envisaged by the legislation  of the 
Russian Federation the referendum and the legislation of the Russian Federation on 
elections;  
5) shall observe the provisions of the legislation of the Russian Federation that 
regulate the procedure for disseminating mass information;  
6) shall  observe the rights and lawful interests of citizens and organisations, for 
instance the honour, dignity and business reputation of citizens as well as the business 
reputation of organisations.  
2. The following is hereby prohibited when information is placed on a website or 
website page on the Internet:  
1) the use of the website or website page on the Internet for the purpose of 
concealing or falsifying information of public significance, disseminating knowingly unrelia ble information under the disguise of reliable messages;  
2) the dissemination of information for the purpose of discrediting a citizen or some 
categories of citizens on the basis of sex, age, race or ethnicity, language, religion, trade , 
place of residence and work and also in connection with their political convictions.  
3. The blogger is entitled to:  
1) freely search, receive, transmit and disseminate information by any method in 
accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation;  
2) set out on his website or website page on the Internet his personal judgements 
and assessment with an indication of his name or pseudonym;  
3) place  or allow the placement on his website or website page on the Internet 
texts and/or other materials of other users of the Internet, unless the placement of such 
texts and/or other materials contravenes the legislation of the Russian Fede ration;  
4) disseminate advertisements on an onerous basis in keeping with the civil 
legislation , Federal Law  No. 38 -FZ of March 13, 2006 on Advertisement on his website or 
website page on the Internet.  
4. An abuse of the right of disseminating generally accessible information that has 
manifested itself as breach of the provisions of Parts 1 , 2 and 3 of the present article shall 
entail criminal, administrative or another liability in accordance with the leg islation of the 
Russian Federation.  
5. On his website or website page on the Internet the blogger shall place his name 
and initials and an e -mail address for sending legal -significance messages to him.  
6. On his website or website page on the Internet the blogger shall place 
immediately after receiving a court's decision that has become final and contains demand 
for its being published on the website or website page.  
7. The owner s of websites on the Internet who have registered as network editions 
in accordance with Law of the Russian Federation No. 2124 -I of December 27, 1991 on 
Mass Media are not bloggers.  
8. The federal executive governmental body carrying o ut the functions of control 
and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information 
technologies and telecom shall keep a register of the websites and/or website pages on 
the Internet on which generally accessible information is placed  and to which access 
exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day. For the purpose of ensuring the formation of 
the register of websites and/or website pages on the Internet the federal executive 
governmental body carrying out the functions of control and s upervision in the field of 
mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom:  
1) shall organise the monitoring of websites and website pages on the Internet;  
2) shall endorse a methodology for assessing the number of users of a website or 
website page on the Internet per day;  
3) has the right of requesting from organisers of dissemination of information on 
the Internet, bloggers and other persons the information required fo r keeping such 
register. Within 10 days after receiving a request from the federal executive governmental 
body carrying out the functions of control and supervision in the field of mass media, 
mass communications, information technologies and telecom said persons shall provide 
the information so requested.  
9. In the event of detection in information -telecommunication networks, for instance 
on the Internet, of a website or website page which contain generally  accessible information and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, including 
the consideration of relevant applications of citizens or organisations, the federal 
executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and su pervision in the 
field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies and telecom:  
1) shall include said website or website page on the Internet in the register of the 
websites and/or website pages on the Internet on whic h generally accessible information 
is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day;  
2) shall identify the hosting provider or the other person which ensures the 
placement of the website or website page on the  Internet;  
3) shall send to the hosting provider or the person mentioned in Item 2  of the 
present part a notice in electronic form in Russian and English concerning the need for 
provision of details allowing to identify the blogger;  
4) shall record the date and time of dispatch of the notice to the hosting provider or 
the person mentioned in Item 2  of the present part in the relevant information system.  
10. Within three working days after rec eiving the notice mentioned in Item 3 of Part 
9 of the present article the hosting provider or the person mentioned in Item 2 of Part 9  of 
the present article shall provide the information allowing to identify the blogger.  
11. Having received the information specified in Item 3 of Part 9  of the present 
article, the federal executive governmental body carrying out the functions of control and 
supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies 
and telec om shall send a notice to the blogger informing that his website or website page 
has been included in the register of the websites and/or website pages on the Internet on 
which generally accessible information is placed and to which access exceeds 3,000 
users of the Internet per day, with reference to the provisions of the legislation of the 
Russian Federation applicable to said website or website page on the Internet.  
12. If during three months access to the website or website page on  the Internet is 
below 3,000 users of the Internet per day that website or that website page on the 
Internet shall be removed on the blogger's application from the register of the websites 
and/or website pages on the Internet on which generally accessible information is placed 
and to which access exceeds 3,000 users of the Internet per day, with a notice to this 
effect being sent to the blogger. The given website or website page on the Internet may 
be removed from that register when no application is filed by the blogger if access to the 
given website or website page on the Internet during six months is below 3,000 users of 
the Internet per day.  
 
Article 11 . Documenting of Information  
1. The legislation of the Russian Federation or agreement between the parties may 
provide for requirements for the documenting of information.  
2. The documenting of information within the federal bodies of executive power 
shall be effected in the procedure prescri bed by the Government of the Russian 
Federation. The rules of documents keeping and documents turnover established by 
other state bodies and local self -government bodies within the limits of their respective 
competence must conform to th e requirements established by the Government of the 
Russian Federation in part concerning document keeping and document turnover for the 
federal executive authorities.  
 3. Abrogated . 
4. For purposes of making civil -law contracts or legalisation of other legal relations 
involving persons exchanging electronic messages, the exchange of electronic messages 
each of which is signed with an electronic signature or with other analogue of an 
autograph of the sender of that message in the pro cedure established by federal laws , 
other statutory legal acts or agreement of the parties shall be regarded as an exchange 
of documents.  
5. The right of ownership and other rights in things to tangible media containing 
documented information shal l be established under civil legislation.  
 
Article 12 . State Regulation in the Sphere of Application of Information 
Technologies  
1. State regulation in the sphere of application of information technologies shall 
provide for:  
1) regulation of relations associated with the search, receipt, transfer, production 
and dissemination of information by using information technologies (informatisation) on 
the basis of principles established under this Federal Law;  
2) development of information systems of various purposes to provide citizens 
(individuals), organisations, state bodies and local self -government bodies with 
information and also to ensure the interaction of those systems;  
3) creation of conditions for the effective use in the Russian Federation of 
information -telecommunications networks;  
4) ensuring children's information safety.  
2. State bodies and local self -government bodies shall in kee ping with their 
respective powers:  
1) take part in developing and realising directed programs of application of 
informational technologies;  
2) create informational systems and provide access to information contained 
therein i n the Russian language and national language of a corresponding constituent 
republic of the Russian Federation.  
 
Article 13 . Informational Systems  
1. Informational systems shall comprise:  
1) stat e informational systems - federal informational systems and regional 
informational systems created on the basis of federal laws and laws of the subjects of the 
Russian Federation respectively, on the basis of legal acts of state bodies;  
2) municipal informational systems created on the basis of decision of a local self -
government body;  
3) other informational systems.  
2. Unless otherwise is envisaged under federal laws, the operator of an 
information al system shall be the owner of technical facilities used to process information 
contained in the data -bases that is lawfully using those data -bases or a person with 
whom the owner made a contract for operation of the informational system. In the 
instances  and in the procedure established by federal laws, the information system 
operator shall provide for the possibility of placing information on the Internet in the form 
of public data.  3. The rights of the holder of information contained in the info rmational system 
data-bases shall be protected irrespective of the copyrights and other rights for such 
data-bases.  
4. The requirements established under this Federal Law for the state informational 
systems shall apply to municipal informatio nal systems, unless otherwise is provided 
under the legislation of the Russian Federation on local self -government.  
5. The specificity of operation of state informational systems and municipal 
informational systems may be established in accor dance with technical regulations, 
statutory legal acts of state bodies and statutory legal acts of local self -government 
bodies making decisions on the creation of those informational systems.  
6. The procedure for the creation and operation o f informational systems not being 
state informational systems or municipal informational systems shall be such as 
established by operators of those informational systems in accordance with the 
requirements set under this Federal Law or other federal laws.  
 
Article 14 . State Informational Systems  
1. State informational systems shall be created for the purposes of realising the 
powers of state bodies and ensuring the exchange of information between those bodies 
and also for other pur poses as may be established under federal laws.  
2. The state informational systems shall be created and operated subject to the 
requirements provided for by the legislation  of the Russian Federation on the contractual 
system in th e sphere of purchasing goods, works and services for meeting state and 
municipal needs.  
3. State informational systems shall be created and operated on the basis of 
statistical and other documented information supplied by citizens (individuals), 
organisations, state bodies and local self -government bodies.  
4. Lists of types of information to be supplied in an obligatory fashion shall be 
established under federal laws, while the conditions for supply of same - by the 
Government of the Russian Federation or by appropriate state bodies, unless otherwise 
is stipulated under federal laws. If when creating or operating the state information 
systems it is planned to process the generally accessible information provided for by the 
lists endorsed in co mpliance with Article 14 of Federal Law No. 8 -FZ of February 9, 2009 
on Providing Access to information about the Activities of the State Bodies and Local 
Authorities or such information is being processed, the state information systems shall 
provide for p lacement of such information on the Internet in the form of public data.  
4.1. The Government of the Russian Federation shall specify  the instances when 
an access through the use of the Internet to the information contained in the state 
information systems is provided exclusively to the information users that have passed 
authorization in the comprehen sive system of identification and identity verification, as 
well as a procedure for using the comprehensive system of identification and identity 
verification.  
5. Unless otherwise is envisaged by a decision to create a state informatiol system, 
the functions of its operator shall be performed by the customer that made a state 
contract for the creation of such information system. Notably, the commissioning of the 
state information system shall be carried out in the procedure established by the 
custom er. 6. The Government of the Russian Federation shall have the right to impose 
requirements for the procedure  for creating and commissioning of individual state 
informational systems.  
7. It is not allowed to operate state information systems without the proper 
legalisation of the rights for the use of its components being objects of intellectual 
property.  
8. Technical facilities designed to process information contained with in state 
informational systems, including software technical means and means of information 
protection, shall comply with the requirements of legislation of the Russian Federation on 
technical regulation.  
9. The information contai ned within state information systems and also other data 
and documents available at the disposal of state bodies shall constitute state information 
resources. The information contained in state information systems shall be deemed 
official. The state bodies  specified by the normative legal act which regulates the 
functioning of a state information system are obliged to ensure the reliability and 
relevance of the information contained in the given information system, access to the 
cited information in the cas es and in the procedure provided for by law, as well as the 
protection of the cited information against unlawful access thereto, elimination, 
modification, blocking, copying, supply, dissemination and other wrongful actions.  
 
Article 15 . Use of Information -Telecommunications Networks  
1. The use on the territory of the Russian Federation of information -
telecommunications networks shall be made subject to the requirements of the legislation  
of the Russ ian Federation in the field of communications, this Federal Law and other 
statutory legal acts of the Russian Federation.  
2. Regulation of the use of information -telecommunications networks access to 
which is not restricted  to a specified group of persons shall be effected in the Russian 
Federation with due regard for the universally accepted international practice of activity of 
self-regulating organisations in that field. The procedure for the use of other information -
telecommunications networks shall be determined by the owners of those networks with 
due regard for the requirements set under this Federal Law.  
3. The use on the territory of the Russian Federation of information -
telecommunica tions networks in economic and other activity may not serve as a basis for 
imposing additional requirements or restrictions concerning regulation of the said activity 
conducted without the use of those networks and also for non -observance of the 
requiremen ts established under federal laws.  
4. Federal laws may provide for the obligatory identification of personality, 
organisations using an information -telecommunications network when conducting 
entrepreneurial activity. Notably, the recipient of  an electronic message located on the 
territory of the Russian Federation shall have the right to conduct a check -up making it 
possible to identify the sender of an electronic message and in instances specified by 
federal laws or agreement of the parties, it shall be obligated to conduct such a check -up. 
5. Transfer of information by using information -telecommunications networks shall 
be made without any restrictions, subject to compliance with the requirements set under 
federal laws for disse mination of information and protection of objects of intellectual 
property. Transfer of information may be restricted only in the procedure and on the conditions which have been established under federal laws.  
6. The specificity of connection  of state informational systems to information -
telecommunications networks may be specified under statutory legal acts of the 
President of the Russian Federation or statutory legal acts of the Government of the 
Russian Fede ration.  
 
Article 15.1.  The Comprehensive Register of Domain Names, Indications of Site 
Pages on the Internet and Network Addresses Enabling to Identify the Sites 
on the Internet Whose Dissemination in the Russian Federation Is 
Prohibited  
1. For the purpose of restricting access to the Internet sites containing information 
whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited, the comprehensive 
automated information system "The Comprehensive Register of Domain Names, 
Indications of Site Pages on the Internet and Network Addresses Enabling to Identify the 
Sites on the Internet Whose Dissemination in the Russian Federation Is Prohibited" shall 
be created (hereinafter referred to as the register).  
2. The fo llowing shall be included in the register:  
1) domain names and/or indications of site pages in the Internet network containing 
information whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited;  
2) network addresses enabling to identify the sites in the Internet network 
containing information whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited.  
3. The register shall be created, formed and kept by the feder al executive power 
body authorised by the Government of the Russian Federation in the procedure 
established by the Government of the Russian Federation.  
4. The federal executive power body exercising the fun ctions of control and 
supervision in respect of mass media, mass communications, information technologies 
and communications may engage in the procedure and in compliance with the criteria 
defined by the Government of the Russian Federation for forming and  keeping the 
register by the register's operator, this being an organisation registered on the territory of 
the Russian Federation.  
5. As grounds for including in the register the data cited in Part 2  of this article shall 
be deemed:  
1) decisions of the federal executive power bodies authorized by the Government 
of the Russian Federation which are adopted in compliance with their scope of authority 
in the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation in respect of 
the following which can be disseminated through the Internet:  
a) materials with pornographic images of minors and/or announcements about 
engaging minors as performers for participation in entert ainment events of pornographic 
nature;  
b) information about the ways and methods of developing, making and using 
narcotic agents, psychotropic substances and their precursors, places where such 
agents, substances and their precursors ca n be acquired, about the methods and places 
of cultivating plants containing narcotic agents;  
c) information on ways of committing suicide, as well as calls for committing 
suicide;  
 d) information about minors being victims of  unlawful actions (omission to act), 
whose dissemination is prohibited by federal laws;  
e) information which violates the provisions of Federal Law  No. 244 -FZ of 
December 29, 2006 on the State Regulation of the Organisation and Conduct of 
Gambling and on A mendments to Some Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation and 
of Federal Law  No. 138 -FZ of November 11, 2003 on Lotteries concerning ban on the 
organisation and conduct of gambling and lotteries by means of the network "Internet" 
and other communication  means;  
2) an effective court decision on declaring the information disseminated through 
the Internet as the one whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited.  
6. The decision on including into the  register of domain names, indications of site 
pages on the Internet and network addresses enabling to identify the sites on the Internet 
whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited may be appealed against 
with court by the Internet site ow ner, hosting provider and communications operator 
engaged in rendering the services involved in providing access to the Internet within 
three months since the date when such decision is rendered.  
7. Within 24 hours as from the time of recei ving from the register operator a 
notification on the inclusion of a domain name and/or a page indication on the Internet in 
the register the hosting provider is bound to inform of it the Internet site owner being 
serviced by it and to notify him of a need  for immediate deletion of the Internet page 
containing information whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited.  
8. Within 24 hours as from the time of receiving from the hosting provider a notice 
about the inclusion of the domain name and/or the Internet page indication in the register 
the owner of the Internet site is bound to delete the Internet page containing information 
whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited. In the event of the refusal 
or inaction of the owner of the Internet site, the hosting provider is bound to restrict 
access to such Internet site within 24 hours.  
9. In the event of failure of the hosting provider and/or the Internet site owner to 
take the measures cited in Parts 7  and 8 of this article, the network address enabling to 
identify the Internet site containing information whose dissemination in the Russian 
Federation is prohibited shall be included into the register.  
10. Within 24 hours as from the time of inclusion into the register of the network 
address enabling to identify the Internet site containing information whose dissemination 
in the Russian Federation is prohibited, the communications operator engaged in 
renderin g the services involved in providing access to the Internet is bound to restrict 
access to such Internet site.  
11. The federal executive power body exercising the functions of control and 
supervision in respect of mass media, mass communications, information technologies 
and communications or the register operator engaged by it in compliance with Part 4  of 
this articl e shall delete from the register the domain name, the Internet page indication or 
the network address enabling to identify the Internet site on basis of an application of the 
Internet site owner, hosting provider or communication operator engaged in render ing the 
services involved in providing access to the Internet at the latest within three days as 
from the date of such application after taking measures aimed at deleting information 
whose dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited or on the bas is of an 
effective court decision on the reversal of the decision of the federal executive power body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation on the inclusion into the 
register of the domain name, the Internet page indication or the network address enabling 
to identify the Internet site.  
12. A procedure for interaction of the register operator with the hosting provider 
and a procedure for obtaining access to the information contained in the regis ter by the 
communication operator engaged in rendering the services involved in providing access 
to the Internet shall be established by the federal executive power body authorized by the 
Government of the Russian Federation.  
13. The procedure for restricting access to Internet websites envisaged by the 
present article shall not be applicable to the information to which access is subject to 
restriction in the procedure envisaged by Article 15.3  of the present Federal Law.  
 
Artic le 15.2.  Procedure for Restricting Access to Information Disseminated in 
Breach of Exclusive Rights to Motion Pictures, for Instance Cinema Films 
and Television Films  
 
1. If films, for instance cinema films or television films, or the information required 
for obtaining them through the use of information -telecommunication networks have been 
discovered in information -telecommunication networks, for instance in the Internet, which 
are disseminated without the permission of the right -holder or without other le gal 
grounds, the right -holder is entitled to file an application -- under a court judgement that 
has become final --- with the federal executive governmental body in charge of control 
and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, informa tion 
technologies and telecommunications for measures to be taken for restricting access to 
the information resources which distribute such films or information. The form of said 
application shall be endorsed by the federal executive governmental body in c harge of 
control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information 
technologies and telecommunications.  
2. On the basis of a court judgement that has become final the federal executive 
governmental body in charge of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass 
communications, information technologies and telecommunications shall do the following 
within three working days:  
1) identify the hosting provider or the other person ensuring the placement of said 
information resource in an information -telecommunication network, for instance in the 
Internet, which provides services to the owner of a w ebsite in the Internet containing 
information containing the motion pictures, for instance cinema films and television films, 
or the information required for obtaining them through the use of information -
telecommunication networks without the permission of  the right -holder or without another 
legal ground;  
2) send a notice in electronic form in Russian and English to the hosting provider or 
the other person specified in Item 1  of the present part concerning the breach of 
exclusive rights to the motion pictur es, for instance cinema films and television films 
complete with the title of the work, its author, right -holder, domain name and web address 
allowing one to identity the website on the Internet that has been used to place the 
information containing the mo tion pictures, for instance cinema films and television films, 
or the information required for obtaining them through the use of information -telecommunication networks without the permission of the right -holder or without other 
legal grounds and also the p age indices of the Internet website allowing one to identify 
such information and demand that measures be taken to delete such information;  
3) fix the date and time of dispatch of the notice to the hosting provider or the other 
person specified in  Item 1  of the present part in the relevant information system.  
3. Within one working day after receiving the notice specified in Item 2 of Part 2  of 
the prese nt article, the hosting provider or the other person specified in Item 1 of Part 2  of 
the present article shall inform accordingly the owner of the information resource to whom 
they provide services and notify him of the need to immediately delete the ille gally placed 
information and/or take measures for restricting access thereto.  
4. Within one working day after receiving the notice from the hosting provider or the 
other person specified in Item 1 of Part 2  of the present article concerning the need to 
delete the illegally placed information the owner of the information resource shall delete 
such information. In the event of refusal or omission by the owner of the information 
resource the hosting provider or the other person specified in Item 1 of Part 2 of  the 
present article shall restrict access to the relevant information resource within three 
working days after the time when the notice specified in Item 2 of Part 2  of the present 
article was received.  
5. If the measures specified in Parts 3  and 4 of the  present article are not taken by 
the hosting provider or the other person specified in Item 1 of Part 2  of the present article 
and/or the owner of the information resource, the domain name of the Internet website, 
its web address, the page indices of the website on the Internet allowing one to identify 
the information containing the motion pictures, for instance cinema films and television 
films, or the information required for obtaining them through the use of information -
telecommunication networks and pl aced without the permission of the right -holder or 
without other legal grounds and also another details of that website and information shall 
be sent via the cooperation system to communication operators so that measures be 
taken to restrict access to that  information resource, for instance the Internet website or 
to the information placed thereon.  
6. Under a court judgement that has become final the federal executive 
governmental body in charge of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass 
communications, information technologies and telecommunications shall do the following 
within three working days after receiving the court judgement on revocation of the 
restriction on access to an information resource that contains motion pictures, for 
instance cinema films and television films, or the information required for obtaining them 
through the use of information -telecommunication networks distributed without the 
permission of the right -holder or without other legal grounds: notify the hosting provi der or 
the other person specified in Item 1 of Part 2  of the present article and communication 
operators of the revocation of the measures for restricting access to that information 
resource.  
7. Within 24 hours after receiving, via the cooperation system, information on the 
information resource containing motion pictures, for instance cinema films and television 
films, or the information required for obtaining them through the use of information -
telecommunication networks distributed without the permission of the right -holder or 
without other legal grounds the communication operator that provides the service of 
providing access to the Internet shall restrict access to such information resource, for instance to the Internet website or a page of the website.  
8. The procedure for operating the cooperation information system shall be 
established by the federal executive governmental body in charge of control and 
supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies 
and tele communications.  
9. The procedure envisaged by the present article is not applicable to the 
information subject to inclusion in the register in accordance with Article 15.1  of the 
present Federal Law.  
 
Article 15.3.  Procedure for Res tricting Access to the Information Disseminated in 
Breach of a Law  
1. In the event of discovery on information -telecommunication networks, for 
instance in the Internet, of information that contains calls for mass disorde rs, pursuance 
of extremist activities, participation in mass (public) events conducted in breach of 
established procedure, including inter alia cases when a notice is received concerning 
the dissemination of such information from federal governmental bodie s, governmental 
bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation, local self -government bodies, organisations 
or citizens, the Procurator General of the Russian Federation or deputies thereof shall 
send a demand to the federal executive governmental body that carries out the functions 
of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information 
technologies and communication for measures to be taken for restricting access to the 
information resources that disseminate such information.  
2. On the basis of the message mentioned in Part 1  of the present article the 
federal executive governmental body that carries out the functions of control and 
supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information techno logies 
and communication shall immediately:  
1) send a demand via the interaction system to communication operators for taking 
measures for restricting access to the information resource, for instance to a website on 
the Internet or to the information that is placed on it and contains calls for mass disorders, 
pursuance of extremist activities, participation in mass (public) events conducted in 
breach of established procedure. This demand shall comprise the domain name of the 
website on the Internet, network address and the indicators of Internet website pages 
allowing to identify such information;  
2) identify the hosting provider or the other person that supports the placement on 
the information -telecommunication network, f or instance on the Internet, of said 
information resource that provides services to the owner of the Internet website used to 
place the information containing calls for mass disorders, pursuance of extremist 
activities, participation in mass (public) event s conducted in breach of established 
procedure;  
3) send a notice in electronic form in the Russian and English languages to the 
hosting provider or the other person mentioned in Item 2  of the present part concerning 
the breach of the proc edure for dissemination of information with an indication of the 
domain name and network address allowing to identify the Internet website used to place 
the information containing calls for mass disorders, pursuance of extremist activities, 
participation i n mass (public) events conducted in breach of established procedure, and 
also the indicators of Internet website pages allowing to identify such information and a demand for measures to be taken for deleting such information;  
4) record th e date and time when the notice is sent to the hosting provider or the 
other person mentioned in Item 2  of the present part in the relevant information system.  
3. Having received the demand of the federal executive governmental body that 
carries out the functions of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass 
communications, information technologies and communication for the access restriction 
measures to be taken, the communication operator that provides the services of giving  
access to the Internet shall immediately restrict access to the information resource, 
including inter alia the Internet website, or to the information that is placed on it and 
contains calls for mass disorders, pursuance of extremist activities, participa tion in mass 
(public) events conducted in breach of established procedure.  
4. Within 24 hours after receiving the notice specified in Item 3 of Part 2  of the 
present article the hosting provider or the other person specified in Item 2 of Pa rt 2 of the 
present article shall inform about it the owner of the information resource and notify him 
of the need for immediately deleting the information containing calls for mass disorders, 
pursuance of extremist activities, participation in mass (publi c) events conducted in 
breach of established procedure.  
5. If the owner of the information resource has deleted the information containing 
calls for mass disorders, pursuance of extremist activities, participation in mass (public) 
events co nducted in breach of established procedure he shall send a notice concerning it 
to the federal executive governmental body that carries out the functions of control and 
supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, information technologies 
and communication. Such notice may also be sent in electronic form.  
6. Having received the notice mentioned in Part 5  of the present article and having 
verified its reliability the federal executive governmental body that carries out the 
functions of control and supervision in the field of mass media, mass communications, 
information technologies and communication shall immediately notify through the 
interaction system the communication operator that provides the services of giving 
access to the Internet of the resumption of access to the information resource, including 
the Internet website.  
7. After recei ving the notice mentioned in Part 6  of the present article the 
communication operator shall immediately resume access to the information resource, 
including the Internet website.  
 
Article 15.4.  Procedure for Restricting Access to the Information R esource of an 
Organiser of Dissemination of Information on the Internet  
1. In the event of establishment by a decision on a case of an administrative 
offence that has become final that an organiser of dissemination of in formation on the 
Internet has defaulted on the duties envisaged by Article 10.1  of the present Federal Law 
the federal executive governmental body shall send a notice setting a term of at least 15 
days for the performance of such duties to its address (the  address of its branch or 
representative office).  
2. If within the term mentioned in the notice the organiser of dissemination of 
information on the Internet defaults on executing the duties envisaged by Article 10.1  of 
the present Federal Law access to the information systems and/or computer software 
which are intended and/or are used for receiving, transmitting, delivering and/or processing electronic messages of users of the Internet and whose operation is ensured 
by the given organiser s hall be restricted by the telecom operator that provides the 
services of giving access to the Internet until the execution of such duties under a court's 
decision that has become final or a decision of the empowered federal executive 
governmental body.  
3. The procedure for interaction of the empowered federal executive governmental 
body with the organiser of dissemination of information on the Internet, the procedure for 
sending the notice mentioned in Part 1  of the present article, the proc edure for restricting 
and resuming access to the information systems and/or software specified in Part 2  of the 
present article and the procedure for informing citizens (natural persons) about such 
restriction shall be established by the Government of the Russian Federation.  
 
Article 16.  Protection of Information  
1. Protection of information shall represent the undertaking of legal, organisational 
and technical measures towards:  
1) ensuring protection of information  against any illegal access, destruction, 
modification, blocking, copying, supply, dissemination and also against other illegal 
actions in respect of that information;  
2) observance of confidentiality of information of limited access;  
3) realisation of the right of access to information.  
2. State regulation of relations in the sphere of protection of information shall be 
effected by establishing the requirements for the protection of information and also 
respon sibility for violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on information, 
information technologies and on protection of information.  
3. The requirements for protection of generally accessible information may be set 
only for achievin g the goals specified in Items 1  and 3 of Part 1  of this Article.  
4. The holder of information and the operator of the information system shall, in 
instances specified under the legislation of the Russian Federation, be obligated to take 
meas ures:  
1) to prevent unauthorised access to information and/or transfer of information to 
persons having no right of access to information;  
2) to detect cases of unauthorised access to information prompty;  
3) to exclude the possibility of unfavorable consequences associated with violation 
of the procedure for access to information;  
4) to prevent the technical information processing facilities from being affected in a 
way that may result in the no n-functioning of same;  
5) to provide for immediate restoration of information that has been modified or 
destroyed as a result of unauthorised access thereto;  
6) to ensure monitoring over the level of protection of informatio n; 
 
5. The requirements for protection of information available within the state 
information systems shall be such as prescribed by the federal executive body charged 
with ensuring information security and the federal executive body duly aut horised in the 
sphere of countering technical intelligence services and technical protection of 
information, within their respective powers. In setting up and operating state information 
systems, methods and ways used in information protection shall be in conformity with the said requirements.  
6. Federal laws may impose restrictions upon the use of certain information 
protection means and the conduct of individual types of activity in the sphere of 
information protection.  
 
Article  17. Responsibility for Offences in the Sphere of Information, Informational 
Technologies and Protection of Information  
1. Violation of the requirements of this Federal Law shall entail disciplinary, civil -
law, administrative or criminal respo nsibility in accordance with the legislation of the 
Russian Federation.  
2. Persons whose rights and legitimate interests have been violated in connection 
with disclosure of information of limited access or through any other unlawful use of th at 
information shall have the right to resort as appropriate to the judicial protection of their 
rights, including by filing suits for damages, compensation of moral harm, for protection of 
honour, dignity and business reputation. The claim for compensatio n of losses may not 
be satisfied when the claim is made by a person who failed to take measures towards 
observance of the confidentiality of information or who violated the requirements set 
under the legislation of the Russian Federation for protection of information, provided the 
undertaking of those measures and observance of those requirements were the 
obligations of that person.  
3. When the dissemination of specified information is restricted or prohibited under 
federal laws, the civil -law responsibility for dissemination of that information shall not be 
born by the person providing services associated either with:  
1) transfer of information supplied by other person, on the condition of it being 
transferred without modifications and corrections therein;  
2) or with storage of information and provision of access thereto, provided that 
person had no way of  being aware of unlawfulness of dissemination of information.  
4. A hosting provider and the owner of a website in the Internet network are not 
liable to a right -holder and a user for restrictions on access to information  and/or 
restrictions on the dissemination thereof in accordance with the provisions of the present 
Federal Law.  
 
Article 18 . On the Invalidation of Individual Legislative Acts (Provisions of 
Legislative Acts) of the Russian Federation  
The follo wing shall be invalidated as from the effective date of this Federal Law, 
viz: 
1) Federal Law  No. 24 -FZ of February 20, 1995 On information, informatisation 
and protection of information (Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiiskoy Federatsii, 1995, 
No.8, Item 609);  
2) Federal Law  No. 85 -FZ of July 4, 1996 On Participation in International 
Exchange of Information (Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiiskoy Federatsii, 1996, No. 
28, Item 3347);  
3) Article 16  of Federal Law No. 15 -FZ of January 10, 2003 On Making changes 
and amendments to individual legislative acts of the Russian Federation in connection 
with the adoption of the Federal Law On Licensing of Individual Types of Activity 
(Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiiskoy Federatsii, 200 3, No. 2, Item 167);  4) Article 21  of Federal Law No. 86 -FZ of June 30, 2003 On Amending Individual 
Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation, Invalidation of Individual Legislative Acts of 
the Russian Federation, Provision of Individual Gua rantees To Officials of Internal 
Security Bodies, Bodies For Control Of the Turnover of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic 
Substances and of Federal Bodies of Tax Police To Be Abolished In Connection With 
Taking Measures To Improve State Administration (Sobra niye Zakonodatelstva 
Rossiiskoy Federatsii, 2003, No. 27, Item 2700);  
5) Article 39  of Federal Law No. 58 -FZ of June 29, 2004 On Amending Individual 
Legislative Acts Of the Russian Federation and Invalidation of Individual Legislative Acts 
of the Russian Federation In Connection With Taking Measures to Improve State 
Administration (Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiiskoy Federatsii, 2004, No. 27, Item 
2711)  
 
President of the Russian Federation  V. Putin  
 
The Kremlin, Moscow