This document summarizes media regulation policies in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. It discusses Russia's SORM system for internet monitoring, Belarus' presidential order requiring ISPs to report on illegal internet activity, and Ukraine's law allowing security bodies to limit access to websites deemed illegal. The document also covers censorship and mass protests in Ukraine against a law expanding the definition of illegal internet content.

1. MEDIA REGULATORY
IN UKRAINE
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2. RUSSIA• Case of SavvaTerentyev 2007
• LJ comment and the critics of police forces
• 2000 SORM (System of technical instruments for the
functions of operative-security operations)
• Addition to the Law “About Communication” based on
the order of Ministry of communications #2339 from 9
of August 2000
• 1996 SORM-1 as a phone listening tool
• 2000 SORM-2 as a protocol generating service of phone
calls and Internet requests
“ISP’s must monitor the state initiated requests and ban
those resources that are considered to be illegal”

3. BELORUS
• Personal Order #60 of the President Lukashenko
• Signed: December 2009
• Requires ISP’s to gather information about user devices
and services they use
• Report illegal use of internet content and sites
• Make report upon request from respectful security
bodies
• The order is addressed to government to control the
ISP’s, not commercial companies themselves
• Beltelecom doesn’t suffer

4. OPEN LETTERTOTHE
PRESIDENT

5. OFFICIALS A ALLOWEDTO
COPY/PASTE

6. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
ALSO GETS INTOTHE GAME

7. CENSORSHIP
Censorship is the suppression of speech or
other communication which may be
considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or
inconvenient to the general body of people as
determined by a government, media outlet,
or other controlling body

8. UKRAINE
Artek scandal 2009
Law 327

9. PAGE NOT FOUND - 404
• Law #3271 was accepted in parliament in the first review
• Additional lines for Law “About communications”:
“based on a motivated call of security bodies, ISP’s must limit access of
their clients to the resources that spread an illegal content and
information that is connected with violence, pornography and expressions of
race & national hate, terrorism, drugs promotion and objects of intellectual
property, keep security bodies informed and limit access at the first call of
security bodies”
• 404 votes

10. 404: ESSENTIAL ASPECTS
• ISP’s reporting to security bodies is required, hiding means crime
• Intensive monitoring is provided by Cabinet of Ministers
• Clients have to inform ISP’s about illegal content
• No resources to monitor the Internet

11. MASS PROTESTS
• InAU made corrections and they
were accepted
• Internet communities strike
• ISP’s?

12. CENSORSHIP
Censorship is the suppression of speech or
other communication which may be
considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or
inconvenient to the general body of people as
determined by a government, media outlet, or
other controlling body

13. NO MEDIA CENSORSHIP
•There’s corporate censorship
•According to latest Gfk research conducted of
a commercial basis:
•Over 50% of Neutral news color
•What is the reson? Silence is a result of political
influence and pressure

14. LIGHT INTHE END?
• Dmitry Medvedev - Russian President refused to regulate the
internet using the State monitoring at World Political Forum
“Modern country: democratic standards and efficiency criteria”
which was held inYaroslavl in September 2010
• He declares that Russian government doesn’t care about the
Internet
• He sees Internet as a separate world
• Also Medvedev finds Internet a useful interaction between the
State and the people

15. THANKYOU!
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