Russia: Ministry of Digital Development opened consultation on draft Law on Fundamentals of State Regulation of the Fields of Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies including public procurement blacklisting

On 18 March 2026, the Ministry of Digital Development opened a public consultation on the draft Law on Fundamentals of State Regulation of the Fields of Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies until 15 April 2026. The draft would restrict the use of artificial intelligence systems to trusted artificial intelligence models in state information systems and at significant objects of the critical information infrastructure belonging to state bodies, state institutions, and enterprises. Trusted artificial intelligence models would be required to process data exclusively on the territory of the Russian Federation. When artificial intelligence systems and artificial intelligence services interact with state information systems and objects of the critical information infrastructure, information protection would be required to comply with standards established by the federal executive body authorised in the field of countering technical intelligence and technical protection of information, and the federal executive body authorised in the field of security.