Zaitsev Evgeny Yuryevich

Head of the Department of Control and Supervision in the Field of Electronic Communications of Roskomnadzor. Under Evgeny Zaitsev’s authority falls interaction with providers, telecommunications operators, and other entities concerning restrictions on access to information, as well as the maintenance of the registry of restricted access resources. He is also responsible for maintaining the registry of information dissemination organizers, inclusion in which obliges platforms to retain all user data, allowing the state to access it at any time, identify users, and determine what information was exchanged and with whom. Evgeny Zaitsev’s department interacts with the General Prosecutor’s Office on issues of extrajudicial blocking and cooperates with other state bodies for the purpose of implementing censorship. Evgeny Zaitsev publicly supports the exercise of censorship, including bans on the dissemination of information about the war in Ukraine and protests against the policies of the Russian authorities.