New Media Laws and Regulation in the Eurasian Economic Union Member State

Section: Media Law

The problems of legal regulation of new media are becoming particularly relevant in the context of their changing role and ever-growing importance in international geopolitical and ethnopolitical conflicts. This article presents the results of the author’s analysis of current republican and federal legislative acts regulating the activities of online media in the states of the Eurasian Economic Union in order to identify the prerequisites and obstacles for the formation of harmonized legislation that will help ensure information and psychological security in the EAEU. As the analysis showed, the existing documents regulating the media sphere in the EAEU countries contain differences in terms of the conceptual apparatus. Thus, the definition of online media and their role in national media systems remains unclear. Special attention should be paid to bloggers whose legal status is currently not clearly fixed in any of the EAEU countries despite their influence potential. Taking into account the current geopolitical context and the impact of digitalization on national media markets, the issue of regulating foreign participation and interaction of states in the field of new media is also becoming fundamental — at the moment this is also only partially reflected in federal and republican legislation. Among the possible harmonization tools at this stage, the authors propose the formation of special glossaries developed with the help of expert groups.

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To cite this article: Vikhrova O. Yu., Gorlova Ya. S. (2024) Osobennosti zakonodatel’nogo regulirovaniya onlayn-media v stranakh Evraziyskogo ekonomi- cheskogo soyuza [New media laws and regulation in the Eurasian Economic Union member states]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriya 10. Zhurnalistika 4: 49–70. DOI: 10.30547/vestnik.journ.4.2024.4970