Google says NYET! to Putin, pulls techies out of Russia – report
Source: The Register UK
Google is refusing to deny that it is pulling its engineering team out of Russia, leaving only sales and marketing people behind. The reported shuttering of Google's engineering office comes after restrictive laws were passed by the Russian parliament that will force the web giant, and others like it, to keep all data on Russians in data centers within their nation's boundaries.
The rules – which also apply to Facebook, Twitter, and other "organizers of information distribution" – mean President Putin's government will have the right to remove "offensive" material from servers in Russia, as well as anything that the state decides is in breach of election rules.
The regulations also require any blogger with more than 3,000 readers to register with the state.
The laws were passed in July, and the Russian government is getting impatient: in September, senior officials warned Google and others that the government is still waiting for Western firms to acknowledge that they will abide by the new rules, and threatened to invoke financial and other penalties if they don't knuckle under.
Read more: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/nyet_geeks_for_you_google_pulling_engineers_out_of_russia_reports/
Another genius move by Putin to help the Russian economy. But I'm sure
Putinpedia will do.
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