officials are defined by regulations of government bodies and (or) other normative
legal acts, and by regulations of bodies of local self-government and (or) other
municipal legal acts, governing the activities of corresponding government bodies
and bodies of local self-government. 3. The organization of access to information
on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government is carried
out, taking into account the requirements of the present Federal Law, in the
procedure defined by government bodies and bodies of local self-government,
according to the limits of their competence, and with respect to access to
information on activity of courts in the Russian Federation – also taking into account
the requirements of the Federal Law “On providing access to information on the
activity of courts in the Russian Federation”.
Article 10. Organization of Access to Information on the Activities of Government
Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government, Placed on the “Internet”
1. Government bodies and bodies of local self-government place information on
their activities on the “Internet”, where they create official websites, stating e-mail
addresses to which information users can forward requests and the requested
information can be received. If a body of local self-government is not able to place
information on its activity on the “Internet”, the above-specified information can be
placed on the official website of the subject of the Russian Federation within which
the corresponding municipal entity is located. Information on the activities of bodies
of local self-government of settlements in such a municipal district can be placed on
the official website of that municipal district. 2. In order to ensure the right of an
unlimited circle of persons to access the information specified in part 1 of the
present Article, “Internet” connection points are created at places accessible to
information users (at the premises of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment, government and municipal libraries, other places accessible to
visitors). 3. In order to ensure the right of information users to access to
information specified in part 1 of the present Article, government bodies and bodies
of local self-government take measures to protect such information according to the
legislation of the Russian Federation. 4. Requirements for technological,
programmatic, and linguistic means of ensuring the use of official websites of
federal executive government bodies are defined by the federal executive
government bodies, authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Requirements for technological, programmatic, and linguistic means of ensuring use
of official websites of other government bodies, as well as websites of bodies of local
self-government, are defined by the above-specified bodies according to the limits of
their competence. 5. Requirements to technological, software, and linguistic tools
needed to organize information placement by government bodies and bodies of
local self-government in the "Internet" in the form of open data, and to enable of its
usage are defined by the federal executive government body authorized by the
Government of the Russian Federation.
Article 11. Basic Requirements for Providing Access to Information on the