At the end of May, it became known that a set of amendments to the laws on digital financial assets and digital currency is being prepared in Russia. Due to the controversial wording, this may lead to the fact that the courts will be able to recognize in—game currencies as real digital ones,” he said in a comment for App2Top.ru Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov &Pevzner Law Firm.

In mid-February, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) proposed amendments to the law “On Protection of Competition“. Their essence is the removal of IT immunity to antimonopoly legislation. Part of the IT market immediately opposed the amendments. We are sorting it out.

The most important event for the domestic game dev in recent months has occurred in the related industry. The structures of the oligarch Alexander Mamut launched an attack on a successful IT business, Nginx company.

It became known from the electronic System for ensuring legislative activity that the deputy from the LDPR party Sergey Zhigarev today withdrew the bill submitted by him to the federal law “On Consumer Rights Protection”.

Deputy from the LDPR Party Sergey Zhigarev submitted an amendment to the federal law “On Consumer Rights Protection” for consideration. If it is adopted, Russia will ban the sale of smartphones, computers and smart TVs without pre-installed Russian programs.

After Microsoft announced that all prices in the Microsoft Store will be displayed in dollars, Rospotrebnadzor made a statement. In it, the Ministry noted in which cases such a scenario is possible.