Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law that mandates foreign tech companies, including social media giants, to open physical offices in his country.

The development is part of moves by Russian authorities to strengthen their control over the internet and to reduce dependence on foreign companies and countries.

Alexander Khinshtein, head of the information policy and IT committee at the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, said the law applies to internet giants with a daily audience of at least 500,000 people in Russia.

The new law, which takes effect in January 2022, will affect 20 companies, including Facebook and Twitter, both owned by Americans.

The social media platforms operate in Russia but none of them currently has offices there.

According to the law, if the affected companies fail to establish physical offices or open separate Russian business entities, they could face penalties including advertising bans.

“A foreign entity, carrying out activities on the internet in Russia, is obliged to create a branch, open an office or establish a Russian legal entity,” the law says.

Putin had on Wednesday said Russia was not planning to block any foreign social media sites, but that he hopes Russian social networks would provide opportunities for creative and talented people to thrive.

“We don’t intend to block anyone, we want to work with them, but there are problems, which lie in the fact that they send us away when they do not comply with our demands and Russian law,” Putin said.

https://www.thecable.ng/putin-signs-law-mandating-twitter-facebook-to-open-offices-in-russia

Mynd44
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SoroSoke Generation Awon warrior Jack over to u

Zombies will come and masturbate here now and say Putin was inspired by Buhari.

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Hope he knows that the west could use that opportunity to spy on Russia full time

Nigeria has become a benchmark for them

OP is just trying to justify tyranny. Putin rules a communist country and not under democracy. Please don't compare Lie and Buhari's ideology with Russia !!!

sammyj:
OP is just trying to justify tyranny. Putin rules a communist country and not under democracy. Please don't compare Lie and Buhari's ideology with Russia !!!

So Russia is now a communist state again

these clowns keep increasing on a daily basis online.

From bathing with salt water will prevent Ebola ro waving National flag and it will turn to odeshi to protest for 30 days continuously and UN will take over Nigeria to NATO citizen and now this Russia is a communist state

So what's our business with that?

Nigeria is a country with ballz, Aswearugad

They are and please be mature enough to stop this unnecessary insult

superstar1:


So Russia is now a communist state again

these clowns keep increasing on a daily basis online.

From bathing with salt water will prevent Ebola ro waving National flag and it will turn to odeshi to protest for 30 days continuously and UN will take over Nigeria to NATO citizen and now this Russia is a communist state

Twitter baning Trump is what caused all this new problems

superstar1:


So Russia is now a communist state again

these clowns keep increasing on a daily basis online.

From bathing with salt water will prevent Ebola ro waving National flag and it will turn to odeshi to protest for 30 days continuously and UN will take over Nigeria to NATO citizen and now this Russia is a communist state

I called out the dumbo that tweeted “Kanu is a NATO citizen” nonsense on Twitter and he blocked me immediately. That the guy is even the most rated investigative journalist on Twitter NG says a lot about the level of intelligence of most Nigerians.

sammyj:
They are and please be mature enough to stop this unnecessary insult

Russia is a communist state :DOkay we don hear!

What makes it a communist state?

Please read up on Gorbachev and the death of Communism - his glasnost and perestroika reforms!!

Buhari leads others follow.

These people are grouping Buhari, a president of a supposed democracy, with the likes Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping and Lukashenko, and we're supposed to clap?

At least Xi has the good economy, which Buhari doesn't have.

KRSWon:
These people are grouping Buhari, a president of a supposed democracy, with the likes Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping and Lukashenko, and we're supposed to clap?

At least Xi has the good economy, which Buhari doesn't have.

Who shd we group him with Kagame or Kenyatta or Sisi or Paul Biya?

Check out the list of Heads of State that have been to Abuja to see him……