Vladimir Putin signed a law on the battle against fake information about the penalties for This, as well as on combating the dissemination of information containing an insult to the country and society. The appropriate documents are presented on the official Internet portal of legal information.

1st the document was submitted to the state Duma senators Andrei Klishas and Lyudmila Bokova, and the Deputy Dmitry Vyatkin.

The law prohibits to publish false public meaningful data under the guise of truthful messages If it threatens the life and health, property of Residents, undermining public order and security, interfere with functioning of objects of life-support, infrastructure, credit institutions, power engineering facilities, industry and communication.

To demand to restrict Access to network resources was spreading fake data can the attorney General or his deputies.

as a result of such treatment Roskomnadzor notifies the editor about the need to remove unreliable data. It has to be done without delay.

otherwise Roskomnadzor takes measures to limit access to the publication.

Access resumes after the owner of the resource, deletes the data, and the Ministry will make sure of that.

for dissemination of false data that created the risk of harm to the life or health of the people, massive violations of public order, If these actions do not contain a criminal component, it introduces a penalty for the Inhabitants from 30 to 100 thousand Rubles.
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