On July 16, 2010, the Central district court of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Khabarovsk Territory) stated to restrict access to several online libraries and to the YouTube. In the judges’ opinion, the sites publish extremistic materials so that access to the resources in question should be closed for security reasons.

A rather Kafkian “Process” is held in the Russian North-West against a historian that worked with archive documents: no access either to the case materials, or to the documents, or to information on investigative measures performed…

See the list of major normative legal acts regulating issues of access to legal information in Russian Federation.

See the list of major normative legal acts regulating general issues of access to information in the Russian Federation.

Full text in English of the first Russian FOI act that came into force on January 1, 2010.

On July 22, the Kuibyshevsky district court of St.-Petersburg obliged the St.-Petersburg City Committee for Town-Planning and Architecture to provide a response to a request for information on the “Okhta Center” construction.