Vadim Subotin is the deputy head of Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor). Roskomnadzor is a Russian state agency responsible for communications, information technology and mass media. It has implemented the state policy of censorship of independent media outlets.
Therefore, Vadim Subotin is responsible for supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
As the deputy head of Roskomnadzor, Vadim Subotin oversees the department of Licensing, Control and Supervision in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Department of Control and Supervision in the Field of Electronic Communications. In this capacity he is responsible for decisions that have led to a limitation of the access to information to the Russian society and the closure of independent Russian media outlets. Those actions create censorship that promotes, aids and condones the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.