
“The measures have long been in the works on the initiative of law enforcement agencies but the paperwork was expedited after two bombings in the southern city of Volgorad, co-author of the legislation, Leonid Levin of A Just Russia, told The Moscow Times. ‘All of these bills are aimed at allowing law enforcement agencies to fight terrorist acts before they happen,’ Levin said by phone. In particular, the bills would oblige ‘websites, content providers and possibly even search engines,’ defined in the bill as individuals and companies ‘organizing information exchange’ between users, to store all the information about their users for six months and provide it to law enforcement agencies.”
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