Russia: Published guidance for compliance with registration requirement under the Russian Advertising Law

On 10 October 2023, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) published a guidance entitled “5 Steps on Registration for Online Advertising”. The guidance aims to provide simplified information to subjects of online advertising including advertisers, advertisement distributors and operators of advertisement systems, regarding the procedure to comply with the mandatory registration requirement through advertisement data operators in the Unified Internet Advertising Registry (ERIR) under Article 18.1 of the Amended Advertising Law.