Article 3. Legal Regulation of Relations Arising in Connection with Providing Access to Information on the Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government 1. Legal regulation of relations arising in connection with providing access to information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment is carried out according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional laws, the present Federal Law, Federal Law dated December 22, 2008, N 262-FZ, “On providing access to information on the activity of courts in the Russian Federation” (hereinafter referred to as the Federal Law “On providing access to information on the activity of courts in the Russian Federation”), other federal laws, and other normative legal acts of the Russian Federation. Legal regulation of relations arising in connection with providing access to information on the activities of government bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation and bodies of local self-government is also carried out according to laws and other normative legal acts of subjects of the Russian Federation, and, with respect to bodies of local self-government, by municipal legal acts. 2. If an international treaty of the Russian Federation defines other rules than those stipulated in the present Federal Law, the rules of such international treaty shall apply. Article 4. Basic Principles of Providing Access to Information on the Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government The basic principles of providing access to information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government are: 1. openness and accessibility of information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government, except for the cases stipulated by federal law; 2. reliability of information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local selfgovernment and timeliness of its granting; 3. freedom of search, receipt, transmission and dissemination of information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government by any legal means; 4. observance of rights of citizens to the inviolability of private life, to personal and family secrets, to protection of their honor and business reputation, and the right of organizations to the protection of their business reputation, in the granting of information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government. Article 5. Information on the Activities of Government Bodies and Bodies of Local Self-Government, Access to Which is Restricted 1. Access to information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government is restricted in cases in which the above-specified information refers to data which, according to procedures defined by federal law, constitutes government or other secrets protected by law. 2. The list of the data referring to information to which access is restricted, as well as the procedure of referring the above-specified data to the status of information of restricted access, are defined by