Roskomnadzor warned of the need for additional funding for the agency

Roskomnadzor (RKN) demanded additional funding to increase its staff and improve systems. This is necessary for the implementation of new functions that may be assigned to the department in the event of the adoption of amendments to the law “On Communications”. In accordance with these amendments, the RKN will have to additionally control about 2,000 online services. The need for additional funding at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy on February 15 was announced by Oleg Terlyakov, Deputy Head of the RKN. The meeting was broadcast on the website of the State Duma.

The bill assumes that the owners of autonomous systems will have to keep records of the reception and transmission of any information for three years, by analogy with telecom operators and organizers of the dissemination of information (ARI; operators and ARI are already required to store information according to the “Yarovaya Law” and in accordance with the requirements of the law ” about information”). The amendments apply to all networks that have an autonomous system number, Anton Gorelkin (United Russia), a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, told Vedomosti. “It can be not only networks of enterprises, but also networks of digital services,” he specified.