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I feel sorry for whoever is still living in Russia.
Don't be, as Torrentfreak is not reliable source. Screenshot of the law on their site is about measures, similar to GPDR in Europe.
Law about external auth services is talking only about all these login buttons like login with Google, with Apple, or Facebook.
It is not required to use service (it's Russian e-government service, pretty useful). There are still several options (yes, there is VK com, Russian "Facebook"). And it does not explicitly forbids plain old account creation with an email.
There are looots of reasons to feel bad for people living in Russia.
For one, having a genocidal psychopathic dictator.
For another, having only one flex: being capable of starting a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity.
Russia isn't bringing anything to the world except discord, war, corruption, and death. Russia is a net negative to the human species.
Do you have a source?
I know Russian and I have read the law, full text is available on the government site.
Fair enough, you have a direct link for me I could plug into deeply? My Russian doesn't go past much more than ja ne snaju russki jesoik ;)
Be my guest: https://normativ.kontur.ru/document?moduleId=1&documentId=453093#h31
Thank you!
Fixed url (the ampersand gets turned into
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if the link is raw)Well, unexpectedly it turns out that Russian legalese translated into English is not suddenly easier to understand, especially when a lot of it references other laws. I also plugged the result into GPT4. FWIW, my reading and GPT4s both are somewhere between OP and TorrentFreak. TF indeed seems overly alarmist, but there are also a lot of worrysome tendencies in the text. Anyway, GPT4 replies and the translated text in full follow.
GPT4’s interpretation:
GPT4’s summary:
And finally, the deepl translated text (with only 2 or 3 notes by myself in [brackets].
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Privyet Babushka. Horosho.
That's about all I know.
Russian-language independent media says otherwise. Websites like VK and RuTube will now require Russian Email addresses like yandex and mail-dot-ru.