Register of information resources of foreign agents, access to which is limited on the territory of the Russian Federation

Federal Law No. 255-FZ of July 14, 2022

"On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence" PDF (rus)

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation № 2075 of 16.11.2022

"On approval of the rules for interaction between the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications with foreign agents, as well as the restriction and resumption of access to their information resources" PDF (rus)

About the status of a foreign agent

Federal Law No. 255-FZ of July 14, 2022 “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence”, which regulates the activities of foreign agents, came into force on December 1, 2022.

A foreign agent is a person who has received support and (or) is under foreign influence in other forms and carries out activities, the types of which are established by Article 4 of Federal Law No. 255-FZ of July 14, 2022 “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence”.

The following entities may be recognized as foreign agents:

  • Russian or foreign legal entity, regardless of its organizational and legal form;
  • public association operating without forming a legal entity;
  • other association;
  • unincorporated foreign structure;
  • an individual (regardless of his citizenship or in the absence of such).

A person acquires the status of a foreign agent on the day following the posting of information about him in the register of foreign agents published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and terminates from the day such information is excluded from such register.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation maintains the register of foreign agents.
You can get information about foreign agents included in the register of foreign agents on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

The procedure for restricting access to the information resource of a foreign agent

In accordance with Part 4 of Article 12 of the Federal Law of July 14, 2022 No. 255-FZ “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence”, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has the right to send a request to Roskomnadzor to restrict access to the information resource of a foreign agent in the event of:

  • non-submission of the information provided for by Article 9 of the Federal Law of July 14, 2022 No. 255-FZ “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence” within the established period of time by a foreign agent.
  • non-compliance with the requirements established by Part 12 of Article 9 of the Federal Law of July 14, 2022 No. 255-FZ “On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence”;
  • discovery the fact of another violation of the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents made by the foreign agent.

Within 3 working days from the date of receipt of a request from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to restrict access to the information resource of a foreign agent Roskomnadzor is obliged to:

  • send information about the information resource of a foreign agent to Internet access provider in order to restrict their access to the specified information resource;
  • send a notification to a foreign agent about the restriction of access to his/her/its information resource in any available way, allowing to confirm receipt of such a notification.
    A notification about the restriction of access to the foreign agent’s information resource may also be sent to the hosting provider or other person providing the placement of the information resource of a foreign agent in order to inform the foreign agent of the receipt of such notification.

Internet access provider are obliged to immediately restrict access to the information resource of a foreign agent after receiving the relevant information from Roskomnadzor.

The procedure for resuming access to the information resource of a foreign agent

To resume access to the information resource, a foreign agent should:

  • eliminate violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents, which served as the basis for the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to send a request to restrict access to the information resource of a foreign agent;
  • send an application for the resumption of access to the information resource of the foreign agent to Roskomnadzor.

    The application for the resumption of access must contain:

    • the details of the request of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to restrict access, on the basis of which access to the information resource of a foreign agent was restricted;
    • information about the information resource of a foreign agent, access to which has been restricted and is subject to renewal (including information about the domain name, IP address, URL, as well as other information that allows identifying the information resource of a foreign agent);
    • information confirming the elimination of the violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents, which served as the basis for restricting.

After receiving an application for the resumption of access to the information resource of a foreign agent, Roskomnadzor:

  • verifies the fact of elimination of violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents, which served as the basis for sending a request to restrict access to the information resource of a foreign agent by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation;
  • in case of confirmation of this fact – within 3 working days sends information about the information resource of the foreign agent to the Internet access provider to resume their access to the specified information resource, and in case of non-confirmation of this fact - notifies the foreign agent about it by any available means.

Access to the information resource of a foreign agent must be resumed no later than 30 working days from the date of receipt of the application for the resumption of access to Roskomnadzor after confirmation of the elimination of violations of the legislation of the Russian Federation on foreign agents, which served as the basis for sending a request to restrict access.

Using the form below, you can receive information about restricting access to the information resource of a foreign agent.

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Примеры: 1.2.3.4 (for ap address)
example.com (the domain name)
http://example.com/news/ (URL address)

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