The Ministry of Health of Russia is preparing a package of amendments to the law on the rights of the child. The innovations will make it possible to conduct an examination of computer games for the “possible risk to the mental health” of children. If such a risk is detected, the games will be banned for distribution.

The US government has requested information about security protocols from American gaming companies whose stakes belong to Tencent. Among them are Riot Games and Epic Games.

Yesterday, on September 1, a bill was registered and sent to the Chairman of the State Duma proposing to limit the commission of all app stores to 20%. In the comments for App2Top.ru Roman Lukyanov, Managing Partner of Semenov & Pevzner law firm, spoke about the problems of the initiative.

State Duma deputy Fyodor Tumusov introduced a bill “On the marketplace”. It proposes to limit the commission to 20% in all stores operating in Russia. Of these percentages, a third of the amount will have to go “to a special fund for training personnel in the field of computer technology.”

The Trump administration announced the launch of the Clean Network program, which aims to protect data from the “Chinese threat.” The initiative should limit the activities of application developers, mobile operators and smartphone manufacturers in the United States.Main provisions and objectives

US President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders. The first prohibits Americans from making ByteDance transfers, the second partially prohibits working with Tencent. Officially, they are directed against TikTok and WeChat, respectively.

On July 12, a new regulation began to take effect in Europe concerning how digital distribution platforms should work with applications and games (first of all, we are talking about the App Store and Google Play).

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.

Today, on March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the introduction of a number of economic measures related to the spread of coronavirus. Many of them concern small and medium-sized businesses. We have identified the main ones.

In light of the pandemic, the Russian government felt that it should support small and medium-sized businesses. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced a moratorium on the payment of insurance premiums for small and medium-sized businesses.

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.

Clarity has appeared in the adopted law on pre-installations of Russian software on smartphones. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) told what software needs to be pre-installed on the gadgets being sold.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an ambiguous law that obliges to pre-install programs of domestic development on smart devices. Its wording raises many questions.

In the third final reading, the State Duma adopted the law on presets. According to him, Russian software must be pre-installed on smart devices sold in Russia.

Yesterday, in the first reading, the State Duma adopted a bill according to which Russia may ban the sale of any devices that do not have Russian software preinstalled from next summer. We asked the law firm Semenov&Pevzner to comment on the document.

In the first reading, the State Duma of Russia approved amendments to the article “On Consumer Rights Protection”. According to the new version of the article, the sale of computing devices on which Russian programs are not pre-installed will soon be banned in the Russian Federation.

Last Friday, United Russia deputy Anton Gorelkin introduced a controversial bill. He proposed to identify the most important IT products in Russia and limit the participation of foreign individuals or companies in them to 20%. I was looking into the bill and whether it could affect the video game industry App2Top.ru .

On July 23, the State Duma will discuss amendments to the law “On the National Payment System” in the second reading. The law prohibits international payment systems (IPS) on the territory of Russia to comply with international sanctions. The adoption of new regulations is highly likely to lead to the withdrawal of Visa and MasterCard from the domestic market.

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”.