Kontemirov Yury Evgenyevich

Head of the Department for the Protection of the Rights of Personal Data Subjects of Roskomnadzor [2]. Yury Kontemirov is responsible for enforcing the requirements of Russian legislation stipulating that the collection, storage, and processing of personal data of Russian users must take place on Russian territory. These requirements serve as a key instrument of pressure used by the Russian authorities to compel foreign services to cooperate. Compliance with this requirement enables Russian state bodies to obtain full access to information for the purposes of political persecution. Refusal to comply with this requirement provides grounds for blocking foreign services on Russian territory, thereby reducing spaces of information exchange that are not subject to state control.