The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a bill on criminal liability for libel on the Internet, which also generally toughens penalties for such statements.

The Presidium of the Commission for the Development of Production and Distribution of Domestic Audiovisual Content, approved the list of domestic applications that must be preinstalled on all smart TVs sold in Russia.

More than half of the fake news in the past year was related to the topic of the coronavirus pandemic. More precisely, about 60 percent of such news were registered.