Global AI lawAI statute in force from 1 September 2026 — Federal Law 243-FZ on the support of AI technology development

AI 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.