What Runet discusses at the beginning of the week:

1️⃣85% of Russia’s population has access to broadband internet, the government has calculated. At the same time, not all residents of Russia have equal access to infrastructure, and in some remote settlements, indeed, the Internet and voice communications have not yet been installed.

2️⃣State Duma deputy Anton Gorelkin proposed to ban the darknet in Russia. He stated that Russia is the leader in terms of the number of users of the “shadow sector” of the Internet, which has become “a territory of lawlessness and a safe haven for cybercriminals.”

3️⃣The Federal Tax Service may become the regulator of the cryptocurrency market in Russia. In the basic version, Russians will be allowed to mine cryptocurrencies, sell them on the external market or store them in a wallet, with each operation.

4️⃣Experts warn about the legal risks of the digital ruble. For example, in the event that citizens have claims or disagreements when using the digital ruble, the procedure for interaction with the platform operator is not defined.

5️⃣Ministry of digits was asked to introduce mandatory labeling of content created using neural networks. The initiator was the Russian Technological University, which also asks to prepare and approve a program to protect critical infrastructure from possible cyber attacks using neural networks.

6️⃣The Central Bank (CB) intends to increase responsibility for illegal investment advice coming from bloggers and Telegram channels. First of all, the regulator intends to determine what is an investment recommendation, who can give them and what are the consequences of this.

7️⃣In Russia, electronic passports for dogs may appear , and artificial intelligence will track their behavior. Thus, the Russian Ecological Movement (RED) proposes to find lost and aggressive dogs.