Law On The Secured Internet. A Gentle Reminder

On November 1 the Federal Law commonly referred to as the "Law on the secured Internet" will come into force (except for certain parts). The stated purpose of the Law is to create infrastructure to guarantee stable operation of the Russian Internet, i.e. RUnet, in case it is "disconnected" from the global Internet. In order to implement the new rules, a number of subordinate regulations will need to be adopted in the nearest future.

On May 1, 2019 the State Duma of the Russian Federation passed a law which introduced amendments to the Law on telecommunications and the Law on information, information technologies and protection of information having to do with the Russian segment of the Internet (the "Law"). It assigned securing obligations to a wide range of subjects, e.g. communications service providers, proprietors and owners of communication networks, traffic exchange points and communication lines and others if they have a unique identification number for means