The Federal Law supplements Chapter 13 of the Russian Federation Code of Administrative Offences with Article 13.40 establishing administrative liability for failure by search engine operators to perform the requirements stipulated by Russian Federation Law On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection.
The amendments concern the connection of information resources or information and telecommunications networks with restricted access in Russia to the federal state information system; termination of providing information on information resources or information and telecommunication networks with restricted access in Russia to search engine users from Russia; termination of providing information on domain name and URLs of websites with restricted access in Russia to search engine users from Russia following a Moscow City Court decision.