Changes Russian legislation, concerning increased responsibility for anti-state offenses, were called the “Yarovaya package,” although their initiators were at least three more people. Acceptance of new legal norms took place on June 24, changes were made to the project, it was criticized, and the voting was by no means unanimous. However, the package, including two new laws, was adopted. They immediately began to comment on it both abroad and in Russia, and some see in it signs of pressure on social freedoms. To what extent are these reproaches justified?

Protocol issues

The draft package was submitted to the State Duma on April 7 with an explanation of its motivation, namely the need to introduce additional measures to counter extremism and terrorism. It consists of two parts, which are amendments to some federal laws (first) and the Criminal Code (second). Authors: Irina Yarovaya, head of the Duma Security Committee, Viktor Ozerov and chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security. Later they were supported by two more senators from “ United Russia" After a month and a half of discussion, the Duma began voting on June 24. 277 deputies supported the bill, 148 were against it, and one abstained. The package was accepted, but with changes made to it, somewhat softening its effect. It will come into force on July 20.

Motivation

Representatives of the liberal public who criticize the package point to tougher penalties for existing offenses in the Criminal Code, the introduction of new ones and the expansion of powers of law enforcement agencies. However, even they cannot imagine it as if Yarovaya and Ozerov simply winked at each other and decided to come up with something satrapish in order to strangle the democratic freedoms of Russian citizens. The country, like the whole world, unfortunately, is experiencing threats and challenges, as can be seen from the European terrorist attacks, so legislators are simply acting proactively in order to avoid the need to count the number of victims in the future if possible. And then don’t draw plaintive inscriptions on the asphalt with crayons. Naturally, some freedoms will have to be limited for this purpose, and judging by the changes made to the draft, there has been a discussion of rational ways to determine the degree of reasonableness of the measures taken. Perhaps the authors of the project even got carried away a little, but they were corrected, and their considerations were generally recognized as justified. This is how it is to work on laws in a democratic society.

Aiding

Now let’s take a closer look at exactly what changes have been made to the current legislation. The concept of “complicity” was previously quite abstract and could be interpreted in various ways, but now it has been given a clear definition. Firstly, this is financing. Any assistance provided to a terrorist organization or a lone militant, expressed in material form and contributing to the commission of a socially dangerous crime, is considered support, that is, complicity. It's not necessarily money. If a terrorist spends the night in a safe home, gets a car at his disposal, hides explosives or other means of destruction in an apartment or house, all this is considered assistance in organizing a terrorist attack, and liability for this is provided in the form of a prison term of up to eight years. Some might argue that this is too cruel?

Criminal silence

Every lawyer knows the difference between action and deed - the latter also means inaction. If anyone knows for sure about the impending terrorist act, but does not take measures to prevent it (does not inform the competent authorities), then now he is also considered a criminal, however, his responsibility is not as severe as that of the direct perpetrator - up to twelve months in prison. At the same time we're talking about not about some abstract denunciation (also called informing), which is subtly hinted at by “champions of freedom”, but about a very specific list of 16 crimes, including theft vehicles, taking hostages, organizing an explosion in a crowded place, etc. This article of the Criminal Code does not apply to spouses and relatives of terrorists.

Chatterbox - a godsend for a spy

This norm concerns mainly the media, which are charged with monitoring published information to ensure its secrecy. There is information that has special classifications, and its disclosure is punishable by a fine of up to a million rubles. Previously, this norm was not in effect due to the uncertainty and vagueness of the concept itself. classified materials. Moreover, the Criminal Code did not provide for specific punishment for such actions. You can't, that's all. What happens if you take it and print it? Now it is clear that. Similar laws, by the way, have been in force for a long time in the freest and most democratic (as they call themselves) countries in the world.

Juvenile terrorists

Practice shows that even a teenager can do things that are scary to think about, especially since his psyche has not yet formed, and the influence can be different. Responsibility for some serious crimes and in the old Criminal Code begins at the age of 14, there were 22 such articles, and now their number has been increased to 32. The new list includes such offenses as terrorist attack, membership in a terrorist organization, participation in mass riots, hijacking a train or plane, attempted murder people’s lives, etc. They, juvenile criminals, are, of course, children, but this does not make it any easier for the victims.

International terrorist attack

Previously, this article was not in the Criminal Code, but now it is and has number 361. It provides for punishment from ten years to life imprisonment. The difference between an international terrorist attack and a “simple” one is that it is committed not in Russia, but abroad, but represents an attack on the health and life of citizens of the Russian Federation. By the way, the “trailer” to it is the failure to report the preparation of such a crime (Article 205.6), which echoes the provision stated above about the criminal concealment of important information. By the way, recruiting into ISIS and similar structures is now also dangerous, as is organizing mass unrest. And it’s better not to encourage this either.

Likes on social networks?

One of the clearest reasons for the indignation of liberals was the introduction of responsibility for placement in social networks and private blogs of posts with calls for terrorism, extremism or materials that somehow justify them. Immediately there were exclamations: are they going to imprison people for “likes” on Odnoklassniki? No, they won’t - Russia, as Kuchma knows, is not Ukraine. The point is that if the published information contains inhumane calls and promotes ethnic or religious hatred, then you will have to answer for your words. Up to seven years. Is it possible to avoid responsibility? Yes, you just don’t need to write nasty things.

Private information

This clause also caused rejection by some freedom advocates, since according to it, Russian Post correspondence should be checked for the presence of weapons, drugs and other illegal items. Of course, we are talking mainly about parcels and parcels; correspondence today is still more often carried out in electronic form, but a decision has also been made regarding it. Initially, three years of data storage were envisaged, but since this would require a sharp increase in information capabilities (up to 1.7 trillion gigabytes) and costs of 70 billion dollars, they settled on six months. The law came into force on July 1, 2018.

Cultists

The penetration of preachers of extremist movements into the country poses a threat to national security. In order to lead religious activity, special registration and special premises are required. Violators who want to recruit parishioners on the streets into sects face a fine of up to 1 million rubles.

Other

Issues of citizenship, illegal migration, travel abroad of citizens convicted of extremism, the regime of counter-terrorism operations and others are also very important, but to assert that passed laws may complicate ordinary people life is very difficult. But failure to take protective measures in advance can overshadow it with many tragedies. It might be worth remembering this before criticizing the new “anti-terrorism package.”

Editor's response

Latest update: 07/07/2016

On Thursday, July 7, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, enhancing criminal liability for crimes of a terrorist and extremist nature. Putin also instructed the government to monitor the implementation of approved initiatives.

“To put it simply, the government will strictly monitor how this law will be implemented, and if necessary, if any truly undesirable manifestations are revealed, the government, on instructions from the president, will take appropriate measures. That is, the law was signed in tandem with a list of instructions,” said the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

The package of anti-terrorism laws was nicknamed the “Yarova package” in the media, as they were prepared by the chairman of the Duma Security Committee, Irina Yarovaya.

Deprivation of citizenship or freedom for “failure to report a crime”

The law introduces an article of the Criminal Code (205.6) called “failure to report a crime.” According to it, those who did not inform law enforcement agencies “about the person/persons who, according to reliably known information, are preparing, committing or have committed” crimes of certain categories will be held accountable. The law introduces a list of one and a half dozen crimes, the preparation of which must be reported to the competent authorities: from international terrorism to armed rebellion directed against territorial integrity Russia. The maximum penalty for failure to report is imprisonment for up to one year.

People who did not report the preparation and commission of a crime by their spouse or close relative are exempt from liability under this article.

Increased responsibility for calls for terrorist activities

The law increases liability for calls for terrorist activities and justification of terrorism on the Internet. Now they will be equal to appeals in funds mass media; Due to this, the punishment for calls for terrorism on the Internet will become more severe. Maximum - seven years imprisonment with further ban hold some positions for a term of up to five years (before this, public calls were threatened with imprisonment for a term of up to five years without further restrictions).

The document clarifies that the justification of terrorism will include “a public statement recognizing the ideology and practice of terrorism as correct, in need of support and imitation.”

People with outstanding convictions under “terrorist” charges are deprived of the right to leave Russia

The authorities introduce new category restricted to travel. People with outstanding or unexpunged convictions for certain types of crimes will lose the right to leave Russia. Some of these articles are named directly - by numbers. They mainly concern crimes related to terrorism: terrorist attack, hostage taking and others. The same list includes “violent seizure or retention of power”, “attack on life statesman", "armed rebellion".

Operators will be required to store records of phone calls and user correspondence for six months

Telecom operators and “organizers of information dissemination” on the Internet will be required to store call recordings (“voice information”), correspondence, images, sounds, video and other user messages on Russian territory. The storage period is up to six months from the date of transmission, reception and/or processing.

Operators will have to store information about the fact of receiving or transmitting a message or calls (that is, not the content, for example, of correspondence, but only information that it took place) for three years. All this data will need to be transferred to law enforcement agencies, if they are needed for operational work.

At the same time, the bill introduces administrative code responsibility for the use of “uncertified coding (encryption) means when transmitting messages on the Internet information and telecommunications network.” For legal entities- a fine of 30 to 40 thousand rubles with confiscation of illegal funds.

The concept of “missionary activity” is introduced

In the article on freedom of conscience and religion, according to the adopted amendments, a definition of the concept of “missionary activity” will appear. It is considered religious practice outside special institutions, cemeteries, places of veneration, religious schools - worship services, ceremonies, distribution of literature and other materials, reading sermons. Missionary work also includes “spreading faith and religious beliefs” through the media and on the Internet.

At the same time, the law provides that missionary activity Only representatives of registered organizations and groups - or people who have entered into an official agreement with them - will be able to engage. Each missionary must carry documents with certain information confirming his affiliation with a particular organization or group.

Tougher penalties for extremist crimes

Public calls for terrorism or its justification on the Internet will be punishable by a fine of up to 1 million rubles or imprisonment for up to 5-7 years. Public justification is understood as “a public statement recognizing the ideology and practice of terrorism as correct, in need of support and imitation.” Participation in a terrorist organization is proposed to be punishable by prison terms of 10 to 20 years (currently from 5 to 10 years).

The punishment for organizing or participating in an illegal armed group, including abroad, is also becoming tougher: the upper limit of punishment under this article is increased by 5 years.

The Criminal Code is being supplemented with a new article introducing punishment for inducement or recruitment to commit mass riots. Such actions will be punishable by a fine in the amount of 300 thousand to 700 thousand rubles or imprisonment for a term of 5 to 10 years.

Lower punishment limits are also being introduced under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”), in particular, the minimum term of imprisonment will be 3 years, the maximum - 6 years. According to a similar principle, punishment for organizing activities is being tightened extremist organization, extremist community, financing of extremist activities.

In addition, the law provides a new and comprehensive definition of terrorist financing. This will include, among other things, “the provision or collection of funds or the provision of financial services with the knowledge that they are intended to finance the organization, preparation or commission” of terrorist crimes.

An article on international terrorism is introduced

The Criminal Code will appear new article- “An act of international terrorism.” It will be used to judge those accused of committing a terrorist attack outside Russia, as a result of which Russian citizens were killed or injured, as well as those who finance the preparation of terrorist attacks. The article allows for life imprisonment as a punishment.

Mail parcels will be x-rayed for prohibited contents

The law introduces an amendment that will oblige “postal operators” (“Russian Post” and private postal companies) ensure that there is nothing prohibited in the parcels. The list of items prohibited for shipment includes: money, weapons, drugs, poisons, perishable foods and substances that could harm postal employees or damage other parcels. It is proposed to check parcels using X-rays, metal detectors and other similar devices. Employees can detain and even destroy packages containing prohibited items.

Expansion of criminal articles that can be judged from the age of 14

The law expands the list of articles by which teenagers over 14 years of age can be judged. So they can be charged with criminal charges for:

For international terrorism;
. for participation in terrorist communities, terrorist organizations and illegal armed groups;
. for completing terrorism training;
. for participation in mass riots;
. for encroachment on the life of a government official and public figure and for attacks on persons and institutions that use international protection, as well as for the hijacking of an airplane, train or water transport.
. for failure to report a crime.

Requirements for telecom operators and Internet companies within the time limits specified by laws look impossible

As expected, President Putin signed the so-called “Yarovaya anti-terrorist package” of two laws. Society will receive an answer to the question of which of the criminal and administrative measures proposed in the package are really intended to help in the fight against the terrorist threat, and which are dictated by fear of “color revolutions.” But the way in which these two laws were adopted, approved by parliament at the end of the spring session, can already be called unprecedented.

So far unprecedented - after all, you just have to get a taste...

The signing of one of the two documents included in the package - the one that introduces new requirements for telecom operators and Internet providers, fraught with large monetary costs - the head of state considered it necessary to accompany the signing of a long list of instructions “on issues of individual measures of state regulation in the field of countering terrorism and public safety."

This happens very rarely (if ever). Usually, the text of a law that comes into force directly provides answers to questions related to its implementation, and if not, the law contains a reference to a by-law that must be developed by the government and these same answers finally given.

What do we see in the list of the president’s instructions? Another evidence that the package was not written by State Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya (“ER”) in company with Senator Viktor Ozerov, who will go down in history as the authors, but somewhere in the bowels of the special services and the administration of the president himself, and was not agreed upon with the government. If it had been agreed upon, all the problems listed below would certainly have been resolved, so to speak, “on the shore,” and one way or another taken into account in the text of the law.

But they are not resolved. And so the head of state instructs the government (with the participation of the FSB) to prepare “drafts of necessary regulations aimed at minimizing possible risks associated with the application” of this law, the president writes, thereby admitting that there are risks, and measures to minimize them have not been taken.

It is necessary to “clarify the stages of application of the rules,” which require large financial resources and modernization of equipment of the entities that fall under Federal law, given the need to use domestic equipment, the president believes.

Vladimir Putin also believes that in connection with the application of the law in the part that concerns liability for the use of “uncertified coding or encryption means” by telecom operators and on the Internet, it is necessary to clarify the powers of the government and federal executive authorities

It is necessary to spell out exactly how the FSB will develop and maintain a register of Internet companies that are required to provide, at the request of intelligence services, the information necessary to decode electronic messages, the president calls on.

It is necessary to stipulate how the legal requirement to terminate the provision of communication services will apply if the user’s real data does not correspond to those specified in the subscription agreement, the president adds.

The head of government Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov must do all of the above by November 1, 2016...

Further instructions were given to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications - by September 1, 2016, to conduct an analysis and submit proposals on the timing, volumes and, in general, possible costs to ensure that the Russian equipment and software necessary for storing and processing messages is produced. In this case, you need to draw up a list of production sites.

There is no equipment yet that mobile operators and Internet companies could purchase in order to implement the requirements of the law - this must be understood.

Yes, the President also ordered the FSB to approve, by July 20, 2016, the procedure for certifying encryption tools on the Internet and transferring encryption keys to the FSB.

The law comes into force on July 20, that is, in less than 2 weeks. The exception is the rules that contain a requirement for telecom operators and Internet companies to store information about the content of messages transmitted by them for up to six months; they come into force on July 1, 2018.

But it is from July 20, and not from September 1 or November 1, that telecom operators are obliged for three years, and Internet providers - to store information on the territory of Russia for a year about all the facts of the messages they transmit, the so-called. metadata. From July 20, and not from September 1 or November 1, fines for failure to comply with this requirement will rise from the current 300-500 thousand rubles for legal entities to 800 thousand - 1 million rubles. Are there enough data centers in the Russian Federation to fulfill this requirement? The text of the instructions gives rise to doubts.

From July 20, no later, Internet companies will be required to transmit information about additional codes at the request of special services. For refusal - a fine of 800 thousand to 1 million rubles. But, judging by the text of the president’s instructions, there should still be some kind of special register of companies that are required to submit such codes. Which ones? Nobody knows.

And fines for using uncertified coding tools from July 20, no later, will range from 60 to 300 thousand rubles. But who exactly will be fined for this, as follows from the president’s instructions, is still unknown.

Warm greetings to the Federal Assembly Russian Federation, one of whose chambers went to summer holiday, and the other - for the elections! To the deputies and senators who quickly approved everything, almost without asking questions!

On Friday, June 24, the State Duma will consider in the second and third readings a high-profile anti-terrorism package of bills by deputy Irina Yarovaya and senator Viktor Ozerov. Russian Internet companies are already noting that the adoption of laws will jeopardize their business and limit freedom on the Internet. Lenta.ru explains why the Yarovaya package will not help in the fight against terrorism, but will forever change the fate of the Russian Internet.

What Yarovaya and Ozerov offer

The “Yarovaya package” contains a number of proposals to combat extremism and terrorism online. In particular, it is proposed to increase liability for its propaganda - justifying terrorist acts or calling for them is supposed to be punishable by imprisonment for up to seven years.

But the most resonant amendments directly concern Russian Internet companies. In the text of the bill, they are called “organizers of information dissemination on the network,” so news portals potentially fall under the “Yarovaya package” postal services, social networks, messengers, forums and even online stores. All of them will be required to store information about the transmission and processing of text messages, images, sound files and video recordings of users. Intelligence agencies will be able to access this data if required for investigation or national security.

In addition, companies will be required to provide government agencies with tools to decrypt protected services. This will also affect owners of websites using the HTTPS Internet protocol. If they refuse, they will face a fine of up to a million rubles.

The proposed laws would require telecom operators to keep records of all subscribers' calls for six months, and information about their incoming and outgoing calls be available to intelligence agencies for three years. Moreover, the bill does not in any way regulate the procedure for storing this data. Operators will also have to confirm the authenticity of users' identities within 15 days.

How much will it cost

Russian companies They will be forced to install all the necessary equipment at their own expense and rent data processing centers for storing information. This will require huge expenses, primarily from mobile operators, who are forced to store records of all incoming and outgoing calls for six months. MegaFon estimated costs at $20.8 billion, VimpelCom at $18 billion, and MTS at $22.7 billion. And for the entire 2015, the Big Three and Tele2 earned $17.8 billion.

Internet companies are also sounding the alarm. Mail.Ru Group calculated that they would have to spend up to $2 billion to install the equipment, and the annual cost of supporting it would be another $80-100 million. Mail.Ru's revenue for 2015 was $592 million.

Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev directly that on Friday the State Duma will consider “a death sentence for Russian telecom.”

Are internet companies trying to stop the law from being passed?

Yes. The Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC), which includes more than 200 Russian Internet companies, has already sent letters to Presidential Aide Igor Shchegolev, Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko and head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Leonid Levin with a request to prevent the adoption of the “package Spring".

RAEC quite reasonably believes that the bill will lead to an invasion of privacy citizens. They will be deprived of the right to privacy of correspondence, all their actions on social networks and conversations will be recorded and stored on company servers for six months.

In addition, the anti-terrorism package will jeopardize national security Russia. Hackers and foreign intelligence agencies could theoretically gain access to government-held encryption keys for protected services. The same argument in May 2015 defeated US President Barack Obama's efforts to force Apple, Google and Microsoft to give the FBI and CIA access to encrypted data.

Due to the huge costs of renting servers and installing equipment, Internet companies and mobile operators will reduce investments in many promising projects. And this includes the expansion of 4G networks and the introduction of 5G, increasing Internet speed and the development of the Internet of Things, not to mention research in the field of artificial intelligence and neural networks.

In addition, data storage equipment will mainly be purchased abroad, since Russia either does not have it today or is inferior to Western analogues. This will increase Russia’s dependence on foreign companies like IBM, Cisco and Huawei, which directly contradicts the policy of import substitution. In addition, only large market players can ensure information security, while small ones can easily become victims of hacking, and user data will end up on the network.

Yarovaya's anti-terrorism amendments threaten Russian Internet business.

And foreign companies may well refuse to comply with the law or limit their presence in the market. Russians will lose access to new Google and Facebook options, timely iOS and Android updates, as well as many other promising technologies. This will lead to a general degradation of the Russian Internet industry.

Will the “Yarovaya package” help fight terrorism on the Internet?

This is a very controversial issue. Mass collection and processing of information can really help identify potential terrorists and extremists. Similar program metadata analysis in the United States, according to the FBI, CIA and NSA, has indeed contributed to the prevention of many terrorist attacks, although it has come under serious criticism after the Edward Snowden revelations. However, the Americans spent billions of dollars on its implementation, and also compensated the costs of Internet companies participating in the project, including Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

On the other hand, encrypted traffic is expanding all over the world, and Russia is no exception. The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, estimates its share at 15-20 percent, but Google claims that in Russia the encrypted HTTPS protocol accounts for up to 81 percent of traffic, while for Rostelecom this figure is 50 percent.

When using HTTPS, all transferred materials are visible to the Internet service, for example, the VKontakte administration, but are not available to the provider. In some cases, the correspondence can only be read while the Internet session is ongoing, that is, the user is online. Once the session ends, the encryption key is automatically deleted. This makes storing data pointless, because now they cannot be decrypted anyway.

At the same time, terrorists prefer secure services, including the Telegram messenger. They act there information channels terrorist group banned in Russia " Islamic State”, through which extremist ideas are propagated and new militants are recruited. According to reports, it is not yet possible to hack Telegram, and its founder Pavel Durov is strongly opposed to cooperation with intelligence services.

The recently end-to-end encrypted messengers WhatsApp and Viber do not reveal user data, and programs such as FireChat can generally do without standard operator networks when sending messages. All of these companies will most likely simply ignore notices of millions in fines for non-compliance with Russian legislation, because they are registered in other countries and, with the exception of Viber, do not have servers in Russia. Facebook will do the same, storing the data of Russians on its European and American servers.

Photo: Anastasia Kulagina / Kommersant

Yarovaya’s amendments will in no way restrict terrorists’ communication through encrypted services, including the Telegram messenger

However, such blocking requires constant monitoring and powerful operational resources. In China and Iran, restricting the operation of certain services is a common practice, and the state annually allocates considerable funds for this. In China, a unique “Golden Shield” system has been operating for more than 10 years, capable of monitoring anonymizers and VPN services.

In Russia, there is practically no experience in tracking encrypted traffic mobile applications, and the same Roskomnadzor blocks sites only by domain. Moreover, to limit access to protected instant messengers, it is necessary to develop legislative framework, which is simply missing today.

But even if domestic intelligence services manage to limit access to Telegram and WhatsApp, terrorists will certainly find other methods of communication. For example, the Tor network, which even the US government cannot hack yet.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the anti-terrorism “Yarovaya package,” his press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

“The President signed a package of documents, amendments to the law on measures to counter terrorism,” Interfax quotes Peskov as saying. Also, he added, a list of instructions to the government was signed.

“The government will strictly monitor how this law will be implemented, and if any truly undesirable manifestations are identified, it will take appropriate measures on the instructions of the president,” Peskov explained.

Putin instructed the FSB “to approve the procedure for certifying coding (encryption) means when transmitting messages” on the Internet, according to the Kremlin website. The President instructed the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to “conduct an analysis and submit proposals regarding the possibility, timing and volume of financial costs in order to organize the production of domestic equipment and create domestic software necessary for storing and processing voice information, written text, images, sounds, video or other electronic messages from users."

July 7, 15:01 In 2016, communication prices will not increase, assured the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia Nikolai Nikiforov. He did not comment on the possible increase in tariffs in 2017 and 2018.

“We can say with confidence: in 2016, prices for communication services are not expected to increase as a result of the adoption of a package of anti-terrorism laws,” TASS quotes Nikiforov as saying.

July 7, 19:14 The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia will check the validity of the increase in communication tariffs if operators explain their increase by fulfilling the requirements of the anti-terrorism package of laws. Elena Zaeva, head of the FAS communications and information technology regulation department, told TASS about this: “If prices increase, we will investigate it. We believe that additional investments will be needed, but we cannot say about the volume, we do not have data for this.”

July 8, 10:42 The collection of signatures against the “Yarovaya package” has begun on the website of the Russian Public Initiative. “This law requires a lot of money and can lead to the bankruptcy of many Internet companies and reduce the state’s income from taxes received from them. It also infringes on human rights,” say the authors of the initiative.

July 8, 15:13 Russian Post will have to spend 500 billion rubles to implement the provisions of the Yarovaya package. This money will be used to purchase special equipment and attract trained specialists to all 42 thousand post offices, the state company said. Interfax writes about this:

“At the same time, more than 100 billion rubles will need to be allocated annually for its maintenance and remuneration of personnel providing control during admission postal items", the message says.

Russian Post is required by law to check parcels for explosives and toxic substances. In addition, the postal operator is obliged to take measures to prevent the sending of weapons, explosives, poisonous plants and animals, drugs, poisons, money, perishable foods. To do this, postal workers can use X-ray machines, radioscopic devices, metal detectors, gas analyzers, chemical equipment, as well as other devices that help detect weapons and explosives.

“Given the scale and vast geography of our country, the implementation of legislative changes will require serious study and resources, both in terms of their technical and financial support,” notes Russian Post.

As stated in the message of the postal operator, the law requires “a more detailed study and understanding of both the volume of real financial costs and their sources, so that its implementation does not affect the efficiency of the functioning of the most important social infrastructure of the state, which postal services have always been and remains.”

July 9, 12:23 Russian Post admitted that because of the “Yarovaya package” they will accept open parcels, RBC reports, citing Sergei Malyshev, deputy general director for the state company’s forwarding business. The post office can start working this way if “the law does not oblige us to equip all 42 thousand post offices with expensive X-ray television equipment.”

Malyshev recalled that this “practice has already been repeatedly used in post offices during events that require enhanced security measures, for example during the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi".

July 13, 11:20 Because of the Yarovaya “package”, the average cost of delivering parcels could increase by 60% - up to 400 rubles per item, Vedomosti writes with reference to Alexander Ivanov, president National Association distance selling.

According to Ivanov, as a result, people will buy 30-40% less in online stores: buyers are unlikely to be interested in goods whose delivery costs more than they pay for themselves.

July 14, 14:55 Moscow City Hall agreed holding a rally against the “Yarovaya package” - it will take place on July 26 from 18:00 to 20:30 on Yauz Gate Square in the center of Moscow.

July 22, 11:58 The mayor's office did not allow the rally, the head of the department said regional security capital Alexey Mayorov.

“On July 26, a group of citizens on behalf of Leonid Volkov, Ivan Zhdanov and Evgeny Zamyatin submitted an application related to the protection of Articles 23 and 24 of the Constitution and freedom of the Internet. During the registration process, the approval procedure was not properly followed. As a result, the rally was refused ", Mayorov told Interfax.

Leonid Volkov, one of the organizers, wrote on his blog that the mayor’s office banned the rally “for far-fetched reasons”:

On July 11, they submitted an application to hold a rally on July 26 on Slavyanskaya Square; three days later, on July 14, the mayor’s office responded by proposing to move the meeting to Yauz Gate Square. Although their proposal was not motivated (did not contain any reference to any of the reasons permitted by law for postponing the meeting), we, following our strategy, immediately agreed. I was in Novosibirsk for the trial, so that same evening Ivan Zhdanov, one of the three applicants, took our consent to the transfer to the mayor's office.

According to the law on mass events, from this moment the meeting is considered agreed upon. Dot. There can be no discrepancies here, and the practice of holding rallies in recent years It’s quite worked out.

Suddenly yesterday, July 21 in the evening - a week after approval! “Zhdanov is summoned to the mayor’s office and told: “You know, we’ve changed our minds.” And they give a formal reason: you know, you have three applicants (this is standard practice - formally one is responsible for general organization, one for medicine and one for safety), and in your consent to the proposal to transfer there is only one signature (Zhdanova). “So we believe that you did not agree with the postponement, therefore the meeting was not agreed upon.”

This, of course, is nonsense. This is not the first or tenth time we have held rallies, the procedure is standard and based on the law, the mayor’s office has always arranged it, as it did throughout the week - until yesterday evening. It is quite obvious that some boss from among the real authors of the “Yarovaya package” called them and threw a tantrum, only this can explain the actions of the mayor’s office.

July 26, 13:35 The organizers of the rally are submitting a new application - for 19:00 on Tuesday, August 9. Leonid Volkov publishes details on his blog.

August 1, 10:09 The capital authorities agreed on the rally on August 9, but proposed to hold it in Sokolniki Park, and not on Yauz Gate Square, Vasily Oleynik, the first deputy head of the capital’s department of regional security and anti-corruption, told RIA Novosti. “We offered them to hold a public event… There is no answer yet,” he said.

August 2, 12:35 The organizers of the rally agreed to hold it on August 9 in Sokolniki, RIA Novosti reports.

August 4, 02:47 Russia does not produce the equipment necessary to implement the Yarovaya package, the Izvestia newspaper reports, citing sources close to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. The information was confirmed to the publication by MegaFon, Beeline and MTS.

“We know what equipment the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications plans to recommend, but we have not seen the document itself [sent to the Ministry of Industry and Trade],” said Dmitry Petrov, director of government relations at Megafon. - Megafon periodically purchases similar equipment. Russian companies did not participate in these purchases, and we do not know that they produce such equipment.

Official representatives of the MTS company Dmitry Solodovnikov and the VimpelCom company Anna Aibasheva also confirmed that the entire line of equipment is not produced in Russia to meet the requirements of the law.

Moreover, certain types of hardware and software complexes, for example, for retrieving, cataloging and storing an array of information, are not mass-produced not only in Russia, but also in the world, Solodovnikov noted.

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