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Those posting pro russian comments, i can almost guarantee you were not there during the Russian invasion in Crimea, and most likely have not been there... you are only posting 3rd party info from Rus

but there is still some work to be done in Russia, the Crimean referendum only had 96.77 support for the occupation, there are still people to be "convinced", a small minority of na

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I already made reference to the EU, but their General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is developing fast now. That will effect all the member states. A lot of this is driven by the US arrogance rega

Just curious what other countries have similar legislation? Russia is the only one I am aware of...

Russia is no longer a democracy for a long time now, opposition leaders are not only silenced and jailed, but outright killed, stuffing ballot boxes does not happen only in conquered areas to justify

Your opinion is incredibly biased. You just heard from others, most countries have similar legislation. Russia will keep up with others after the liberation chaos.

The laws which have been made in the recent years in Russia against the Internet and democracy in general are unconstitutional. Their primary objective is to suppress freedom of speech and allow gover

I'm interested in the internet, and I'm interested in Russia.

When Russia applies new law everybody says "Hey, see what they do here! We did it a long time ago but nobody noticed".

These laws already exist, nothing new, for security purposes Russian companies must store personal data only inside Russia, web portals, social networks etc already moved to Russian DC

all those companies has big offices here in Moscow, 145M people in Russia are big stake

That's something I was wondering too. My guess is that if a company is not also operating in Russia, it won't effect them. It's companies like Google who will have to cope - and I'm sure they will. Th

it's impossible to rent a server in every country so... not sure what Russia expects

China has banned Facebook, Google and they are thriving. If need be, I think they will survive being banned in Russia, too. Ditto most other companies. Not much else the Russian authorities can do to

welcome to Hostkey, any VPS in Russia will work perfectly

this is complex question, trust me. its not enough just store data in Russia. You have to implement certified deployment here which will use certified equipment and software, you have to create Russia

Any Russian providers expecting changes in their business practice in the coming month? I just read that the OPD (On Personal Data) law goes live September one. That means that personal data on Russia