A new form for citizens of the Russian Federation on the Apple website.
On January 17, 2022, in addition to Apple, Viber and Likee also registered personal accounts on the Roskomnadzor website. Apple and Likee also made electronic forms on their websites for sending applications from Russian citizens and organizations, as provided for by the current legislation of the Russian Federation and the requirement of the ILV. Until the beginning of 2022, these forms did not exist on the Apple and Likee websites. Likee also installed one of the resource attendance counters recommended by Roskomnadzor - MyTracker.
In fact, 2 out of 13 IT companies that fell under the “landing” law met 2 out of 3 requirements. It remains for Apple and Likee to open an office in the country, and Viber to make a contact form on the website and open an office. Moreover, the representative of the company clarified that Viber has already opened a representative office in the Russian Federation under the law on “landing”.
Regarding the contact form, IT companies implemented this requirement a little differently.
Likee just made a link on the main page of his site at the bottom in the "Support" section in the "Help and Feedback" subsection to a Google form.
On Apple's "Contact Apple" page in the "Help and technical support" section and in the "Submit a request" subsection, a notification appeared "Consumers and organizations in Russia can submit their requests for the App Store, iCloud and Apple Music through a separate link." For each client, a new link is generated, so you can access this form only through the main part of the "Help and technical support" section of the site.
On November 22, 2021, Roskomnadzor published a list of foreign Internet companies that must open representative offices in Russia from January 1, 2022. This list of companies currently includes: Google, Apple, Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Likeme, Viber, Discord, Pinterest, Spotify, and Twitch.
In addition to the requirement to establish a branch/representative office/Russian legal entity from January 1, 2022, Russian law imposes a number of obligations on foreign entities. So, they must place on their website an electronic feedback form with Russian users, register a personal account on the Roskomnadzor website for interaction with authorities, install a recommended attendance counter on the information resource (the list of recommended attendance counters is determined by the RKN and posted on the main page of the site 236- fz.rkn.gov.ru), also foreign persons are required to restrict access to information that violates Russian law and follow the instructions of the RKN to remove prohibited content within 24 hours.
As of December 29, 2021, none of the foreign companies has opened its branch and announced, except for Viber, that it will do so in the near future.
For each company, the RKN website reflects the status of compliance with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation:
place on the information resource(s) an electronic form: not executed/completed;
create a branch, or open a representative office, or establish a Russian legal entity: not executed;
register a personal account on the official website of Roskomnadzor: not executed\completed.
Current enforcement measures from RKN to 13 companies: no enforcement measures are applied.
Possible coercive measures to foreign companies from the RKN:
a ban on the distribution of advertising of a foreign person and (or) his information resource as an object of advertising;
a ban on the distribution of advertising on the information resource of a foreign person;
search ban.
In early December, the head of Roskomnadzor announced that the department would not immediately restrict the work of foreign Internet companies without representation from January 1, 2022. The representative of the supervisory agency explained that the slowdown and blocking of foreign resources by the ILV is possible, but this will not be done without notification and discussion. In his opinion, the main thing is for companies to enter into a dialogue with the regulator. Foreign IT resources ready for cooperation will be able to deal with all the requirements of Russian legislation during the beginning of the year, even with the help of technical support from RKN specialists.
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