Regulation of Online Freedom of Expression in Russia in the Context of the Council of Europe Standards

Elena Sherstoboeva ()
Additional contact information
Elena Sherstoboeva: City University of Hong Kong

A chapter in Internet in Russia, 2020, pp 83-100 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter compares the Russian national legislation on online freedom of expression with the Council of Europe’s (CoE) legal standards to investigate the extent to which the Russian legislation has been consistent with the CoE vision. The chapter first examines the CoE perspective on online freedom of expression and media freedom, including the European Court of Human Rights case law and non-binding documents of the other main CoE institutions, and then analyses the Russian national legal framework for online content. The chapter looks beyond legal studies debates and outlines the issue from historical and political perspectives to explore the real meaning of online freedom of expression in Russia. The chapter concludes that Russian and CoE visions are conceptually different and that Russian regulations are closer to the USSR speech policies than to the CoE standards. It also suggests that Internet companies and international organisations should drive a revision of the Russian Internet law.

Keywords: Freedom of expression; Freedom of speech; Media freedom; Internet laws; Freedom of expression in Russia; Internet regulation in Russia; Council of Europe; European Court of Human Rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-030-33016-3_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030330163

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33016-3_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Societies and Political Orders in Transition from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().