AI statute in force from 1 September 2026 — Federal Law 243-FZ on the support of AI technology developmentAI Laws in Russia
Russia's AI instrument is Федеральный закон от 26.07.2026 № 243-ФЗ, «О поддержке развития технологий искусственного интеллекта в Российской Федерации», published on the official portal publication.pravo.gov.ru on 26 July 2026 and in force from 1 September 2026. Above it sits Указ Президента № 490 of 10 October 2019, which approved the Национальная стратегия развития искусственного интеллекта — a presidential strategy, so a policy framework and not a source of obligations. Underneath, Федеральный закон № 123-ФЗ of 24 April 2020 established the Moscow experimental legal regime for AI; its five-year term expired on 1 July 2025 and it is recorded here as spent. ⚠️ Two things a reader should not be allowed to assume. First, the register at pd.rkn.gov.ru/registerOffenders is NOT an enforcement-decision corpus: it lists domains and IP addresses a court has ordered blocked, naming no penalty and describing no conduct, and this product models it as a separate data type rather than counting hostnames as enforcement matters. Second, Russia has no subordinate AI regulation on the federal publication portal — a search of publication.pravo.gov.ru returned exactly one federal AI-titled instrument, 243-ФЗ itself, and that reading is re-asked weekly against a control term so that a new decree cannot pass unnoticed.
Applicable laws
Penalty: Penalty provisions are deliberately NOT quoted. 243-ФЗ is framed as a support-and-development statute rather than a sanctioning one, and the operative penalty articles of the Кодекс об административных правонарушениях that a Russian AI matter would actually be decided under were not read at source in this pass. An unsourced fine figure is not something this product publishes.
AI-specific legislation (1)
Updated September 16, 2026Bills and instruments in Russia whose own subject is artificial intelligence or automated decision-making, pulled automatically from the official legislature feed. See our scope definition.
Guidance & voluntary frameworks (1)
Official AI frameworks, codes of conduct and guidelines in effect in Russia. None of these is legislation and none creates a legal obligation by itself, so they are counted separately from binding law — never added to it. See our scope definition.
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- ↗publication.pravo.gov.ruhttp://publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202607260003
- ↗publication.pravo.gov.ruhttp://publication.pravo.gov.ru/document/view/0001201910110003