Fines for violations of the sovereign Runet law approved in first reading

On 24 December, the State Duma of the Russian Federation, in the first reading, approved the bill, establishing penalties for non-compliance with the so-called sovereign Runet isolation law.

The document imposes administrative liability on telecommunications operators and owners of traffic exchange points who refuse to provide Roskomnadzor with full information about the numbers and network addresses of their autonomous systems, the locations of communication facilities connected to lines outside the Russian Federation, the routes of telecommunications messages, and the network infrastructure.

The proposed amounts of fines for legal entities, depending on the form of administrative offense, range from 20,000 to 700,000 rubles. In some cases, administrative suspension of activity is possible.

For a repeat violation, the bill provides fines for legal entities ranging from 60,000 to 1,000,000 rubles.

During the discussion, the authors of the amendments implicitly acknowledged that more than a year and a half after the law on the sovereign Runet was adopted, it had yet to come into force.

Bill No. 1061159-7 by ForkLog on Scribd

The sovereign Runet law came into force on 1 November 2019.

The provisions of the law envisage the creation of a national system for routing Internet traffic, effectively keeping it inside the country. To implement the law, ISPs, at the state’s expense, must install in their networks equipment capable of deep packet inspection (DPI).

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