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Federal Law No. 149-FZ, Article 10.4, News Aggregator Duties

Federal Law No. 149-FZ, Art. 10.4 (added 2016)

In force since .

A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.

Instrument type
an act of a legislature

What it requires

  • Applies only to the owner of a Russian-language (or Russian minority-language) website, information system or program used to process and distribute news information, where daily access exceeds one million internet users in Russia (a news aggregator owner); a registered online mass medium (a network publication) is not a news aggregator.
  • Verify the accuracy of socially significant information before distributing it, and do not conceal or falsify it.
  • Do not distribute news information in a defamatory or discriminatory way.
  • Publish your contact information.
  • Retain distributed news information and its source for six months.
  • Give the federal media regulator access to the retained news information through its interaction system (Article 10.4, part 1, item 11).
  • Hold ownership of the aggregator only as a Russian citizen without other citizenship, or as a Russian legal entity that is not more than 50 percent controlled, directly or indirectly, by a foreign state, organization or citizen.
  • You are not liable for distributing news information that verbatim reproduces material already posted on an official government-body website or already distributed by an identifiable, accountable registered mass medium.

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Article 10.4, added by Federal Law No. 208-FZ of , applies to the owner of a Russian-language (or a Russian minority-language) website, information system, or program used to process and distribute news information, where daily access exceeds one million internet users in Russia (a 'news aggregator owner'), and requires it to verify the accuracy of socially significant information before distribution, avoid concealing or falsifying such information, avoid defamatory or discriminatory distribution, publish contact information, retain distributed news information and its source for six months, and give the federal media regulator access to that retained information through its interaction system.

The regulator, not the owner, enters a resource found above the audience threshold in its register of news aggregators and notifies the owner of the entry. A news aggregator owner is not liable for distributing news information that verbatim reproduces material already posted on an official government-body website or already distributed by an identifiable, accountable registered mass medium.

Ownership of a news aggregator is restricted to a Russian citizen without other citizenship or a Russian legal entity that is not more than 50 percent controlled, directly or indirectly, by a foreign state, organization, or citizen. A registered online mass medium (a 'network publication') is excluded from the news-aggregator definition entirely.

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