The newspaper Vedomosti reports, citing sources, that the proposal of Senator Anton Belyakov and deputy Oleg Shein to postpone the effective date of the antiterrorist amendments of Irina Yarovoi and Viktor Ozerov from 2018 to 2023 is discussed by the Government Commission on Draft Law.

Sources say that yesterday, June 3, the Commission reviewed the draft positive response to the bill, but the final decision has not yet been accepted.

One of the interlocutors of the newspaper said that a comment to the project was made by the representative of the Federal Security Service (FSB). He added that the authors of the document had been given time to refine it. At the same time, the source did not specify which comments to the draft were made by the FSB.

Reply from the commission in the evening, July 3, has not yet arrived, the newspaper writes.

Earlier Regnum reported that the Yarovoy Package was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in July 2016. According to the package of laws, communication operators and Internet companies are required to store data on the content of conversations and correspondence of users, including photo, video and sound files, up to 6 months.

Information can be provided to special services upon request. The law will start effective July 1, 2018.