The Security Council of Russia instructed the FSB and the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media to take measures that will allow to identify all users of online games and social networks by their mobile phone numbers.
Israeli intelligence authorities warned their American colleagues that hackers from Russia used anti-virus programs made by Kaspersky Lab to break into computers of U.S. federal agencies.
Russian controlling service over telecommunications Roskomnadzor can block Facebook in 2018, if the company does not transfer personal data of Russian users to the territory of the country.
Russia’s Prosecutor General Yury Chaika spoke about the draft law on the prohibition of anonymous use of instant messengers. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Head of Roskomnadzor (Russian controlling service over telecommunications – RRT) Alexander Zharov said that the popular Telegram messenger can be blocked in Russia within a few days if the service founder Pavel Durov refuses to provide registration data.
Soon after some Russian internet providers started blocking google.ru, the decision was cancelled, and the domain was removed from the list of domains that providers are supposed to block.
Roskomnadzor (Russian controlling service over telecommunications – RRT) ordered Russian providers to block the Russian domain of the Google search engine (google.ru).