US Senator Elizabeth Warren and her colleague Mondar Jones have introduced a bill to ban anti-competitive mergers. If it is accepted, companies will not be able to make transactions more expensive than $5 billion.

The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation proposed to equate large playgrounds with audiovisual services. In this case, services like Steam, Origin and PS Store will be required to comply with the requirements of the law on “landing”.Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

These are tough times for targeting. Recently, the European Parliament approved the initial version of the bill, which, among other things, is designed to prohibit IT companies from collecting a number of data about users. We briefly talk about the law.

Two weeks ago, South Korea banned Apple and Google from imposing their payment systems on mobile developers. But it seems that companies still do not follow this requirement. The Korean authorities are ready to wait until mid—October – they have given so much time to prepare a plan to comply with the new law.

South Korea has become the first country to legislatively limit the power of Apple and Google over mobile app stores. According to analysts, this could set a precedent.

Not only American officials are fighting the monopoly of Google and Apple in mobile stores. The South Korean authorities are preparing to adopt a law that will allow developers to use third-party payment systems and not pay a commission for transactions inside applications.

By the end of 2022, esports disciplines will appear in Russian universities. Rostelecom proposed the idea to the Government. The company is confident that video games will make students more creative and stress—resistant, as well as teach them how to work in a team and make quick decisions.

In the final third reading, the State Duma of Russia adopted the so-called “landing” bill. As soon as it comes into force, all foreign IT companies whose daily audience in Russia is more than 500 thousand people will be required to have an official representative office in the country.

The government is preparing a new tax for foreign IT companies. It will amount to 3% of the income they receive from Russian users. The new law will also affect app stores.

On June 1, amendments to the law on education concerning educational activities began to take effect in Russia. Among other things, they may affect game development courses and presentations at conferences.

Yesterday, the Cabinet of Ministers supported the so-called “landing” law, which will oblige large foreign IT companies to open branches in the territory of the Russian Federation. Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov&Pevzner Law Firm, in the column for App2Top.ru I have sorted out the key issues to the law. In particular, about the seriousness of the Government’s intentions and the criteria for selecting legal entities and individuals who fall under its action.Roman Lukyanov

A few days ago, Deputy Alexander Khinshtein proposed to oblige large IT companies to open their representative offices in Russia. Now this bill concerning foreign companies with a daily audience of 500 thousand Russian users has been officially submitted to the State Duma. The preliminary review date is June 1.Khinstein told Interfax about this today.

State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein is going to introduce a bill on “landing” in the near future. It proposes to oblige IT companies with a daily audience of 500 thousand Russians to open official representative offices in Russia.

Against the background of the tragedy in Kazan, Senator Alexander Bashkin proposed to strengthen control over the content of video games. He believes that games glorify violence and can lead to shootings in schools.

The new law on education will take control of master classes and educational videos on the Internet. This became clear from the resolution published last week. We tell you what happened.

Throughout March, there was an active discussion in Russian educational circles about the law on the regulation of educational activities. Despite the fact that scientists and artists opposed it with a united front, it was first adopted by the State Duma, and yesterday, March 31, the Federation Council also approved it. This means that the law will most likely come into force very soon (unless the president refuses to sign it, which is unlikely). We…

The State Duma adopted amendments to the law on education in the third reading. Now educational activities will be regulated by federal ministries. Experts directly call it censorship. However, it is still unclear whether the new law will affect courses and conferences related to the gaming industry.The text of the adopted amendments to the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” is published on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Officials propose to levy a tax on foreign companies that work with the data of Russian citizens. For example, they collect them for advertising campaigns. The initiative is already being compared with the “Google tax”, and they want to direct the money collected with its help to support the domestic IT sphere.This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the participants of the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

On March 1, a law came into force that changes the rules for processing personal data in Russia. It also applies to video games. How exactly — we figured out with the lawyers from VERSUS.legal and Semenov&Pevzner.What changes the law?