Federal Law No. 149-FZ, Article 10.4, News Aggregator Duties
Federal Law No. 149-FZ, Art. 10.4 (added 2016)
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A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 10.4, added by Federal Law No. 208-FZ of 23 June 2016, 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 register with Roskomnadzor once its audience crosses the threshold.
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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