# Russia

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Russia
- **ISO code**: RU
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Europe / Eastern Europe

## In brief

Russia has 2 recorded AI policy instruments, 1 of them binding and 1 in force. National AI strategy (2019, updated 2024) as policy; experimental legal regimes in force; AI ethics code voluntary. Regulators include Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, Roskomnadzor.

## Overview

Russia's National Strategy for the Development of AI to 2030 was approved by Presidential Decree No. 490 of 10 October 2019 and substantially updated by Decree No. 124 of 15 February 2024. Federal Law No. 123-FZ (2020) created an experimental legal regime for AI in Moscow, and Federal Law No. 258-FZ (2020) provides a general framework for digital-innovation experimental regimes. An industry AI Code of Ethics (2021) has hundreds of signatories. No comprehensive binding AI law exists; personal-data and information laws apply.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy (2019, updated 2024) as policy; experimental legal regimes in force; AI ethics code voluntary.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Federal Law 123-FZ (Moscow AI experimental regime). Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy to 2030 (Decree 490, updated 2024).

## Regulators

- Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media — AI strategy implementation — https://digital.gov.ru/
- Roskomnadzor — Personal-data and communications supervision — https://rkn.gov.ru/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 490 of 10 October 2019 on the development of artificial intelligence — President of Russia — http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/44731

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (2)

- **Federal Law No. 123-FZ of 24 April 2020 on an experiment to establish special regulation to create the conditions for the development and implementation of AI technologies in Moscow** — Act / statute, In force, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/russia-federal-law-123-fz-moscow-ai-experimental-regime
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/russia-federal-law-123-fz-moscow-ai-experimental-regime.md
- **Национальная стратегия развития искусственного интеллекта на период до 2030 года (Presidential Decree No. 490 of 10 October 2019, as amended by Decree No. 124 of 15 February 2024)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/russia-national-ai-strategy-2030
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/russia-national-ai-strategy-2030.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/russia
- **Official source**: http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/44731
- **Source document**: Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 490 of 10 October 2019 on the development of artificial intelligence
- **Published by**: President of Russia
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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