Overview
- The government’s draft is registered in the Duma’s electronic database, sent to the information policy committee, and slated for Council consideration on January 12 with priority review at the start of the spring session.
- The Federation Council’s Constitutional Committee supported the bill’s concept, according to its chair, Andrey Klishas.
- The proposal details telecom–bank coordination, deployment of a national GIS Anti‑fraud system, extrajudicial blocking of phishing and malware‑distributing sites, and updated user authorization rules including for Gosuslugi.
- Subscribers would gain the option to block incoming foreign calls, international calls would be labeled, virtual PBXs must be located in Russia with ESIA identification, and virtual SIMs would be capped at 10 per person.
- The draft limits issuance to five payment cards per operator and 20 in total per person, introduces children’s SIMs for parental controls, and tasks banks with protecting apps and detecting malicious code; Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin cited declines in cybercrime indicators this year.