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The federal law sets forth specific modalities for providing mobile radiotelephony communications services to foreign nationals and stateless persons. It introduces a ban on executing online contracts regarding mobile radiotelephony communications services with these persons.

In addition to this, services contracts of this kind must be executed after a foreign national or a stateless person presents the communications operator an identification document confirming their status, subject to verifying whether the information about this person is accurate using a single identification, authentication and biometric data system.

Regarding contracts with foreign nationals and stateless persons, the law provides for assigning the identification module, i.e., a SIM card, to a specific user device, while also restricting the number of the issued subscriber numbers to 10.

The federal law also contains specific provisions on the dissemination of information on social media. In particular, it sets forth an obligation for the owners of social media networks to deliver upon request information about social media users to the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) or the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia, as well as to display notices in personal accounts with over 10,000 users on the fact that these accounts have been included on Roskomnadzor’s list of personal pages.