On May 23, 2011, the Federal Bailiff Service settled an information axchange agreement with three leading Russian mobile phone providers, MTS, Vympelkom and MegaFon. The agreement suggests that the mobile phone companies will provide bailiffs with phone mumbers belonging to debtors subject to executive proceedings.

On November 16, 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a federal law introducing amendments to the Federal Law “On State Secret”. The amendments were adopted by the State Duma on November 1 and approved by the Council of Federation on November 10.

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.

This Russian Federal Act regulates relations concerning information acquitision, storage, transfer and distribution, and protection.

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

On June 18, 2010, the State Duma approved a bill¹ amending the laws on personal data and on access to judicial information. On June 23, it was approved by the Council of Federation.

On June 18, the Supreme Court of Russian Federation launched the new version of its official website.

President Dmitry Medvedev signed the law amending the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. New amendments introduce real responsibility for officials’ refusals to provide information access.