Zaveryachev Alexander Yuryevich

Head of the Department of Organizational Development and Information Technologies of Roskomnadzor. As head of one of the agency’s core structural division, Alexander Zaveryachev oversees the enforcement of one of the key repressive laws in the internet domain — the Yarovaya law [3]. Alexander Zaveryachev oversees the mandatory retention of users’ messages and related data by messaging apps, social networks, email services, and other platforms, enabling state access to this information. The obligation to store such data provides the state with extensive capabilities to control the dissemination of information in the Russian internet segment, to persecute dissenters, and serves as a universal ground for blocking foreign services that refuse compliance. Alexander Zaveryachev is responsible for implementing state policy to restrict the placement of advertising on platforms banned in Russia, a measure aimed at depriving them of revenue from Russian advertisers and financially strangling media targeted by the state and operating in exile. Additionally, Alexander Zaveryachev ensures the functioning of the agency’s information systems that support the performance of its functions and its interaction with subordinate organizations and other state bodies — without which the effective exercise of censorship by Roskomnadzor would be impossible.