Russia — AI Law & Policy Updates

Russia's Federal Law No. 243-FZ on supporting artificial intelligence technology development, published 26 July 2026, takes effect 1 September 2026, according to the official publication portal. The law sits under Presidential Decree No. 490 of 10 October 2019, which approved the National AI Development Strategy, while the Moscow experimental legal regime under Federal Law No. 123-FZ expired on 1 July 2025. A search of the federal portal found no subordinate AI regulations beyond 243-FZ itself.

Федеральный закон от 26.07.2026 № 243-ФЗ «О поддержке развития технологий искусственного интеллекта в Российской Федерации» — in force from 1 September 2026 · Указ Президента РФ от 10.10.2019 № 490 «О развитии искусственного интеллекта в Российской Федерации» — National AI Development Strategy · Федеральный закон от 24.04.2020 № 123-ФЗ — Moscow AI experimental legal regime, EXPIRED 1 July 2025 — Status: AI statute in force from 1 September 2026 — Federal Law 243-FZ on the support of AI technology development Russia's AI instrument is Федеральный закон от 26.07.2026 № 243-ФЗ, «О поддержке развития технологий искусственного интеллекта в Российской Федерации», published on the official portal publication.pravo.gov.ru on 26 July 2026 and in force from 1 September 2026. Above it sits Указ Президента № 490 of 10 October 2019, which approved the Национальная стратегия развития искусственного интеллекта — a presidential strategy, so a policy framework and not a source of obligations. Underneath, Федеральный закон № 123-ФЗ of 24 April 2020 established the Moscow experimental legal regime for AI; its five-year term expired on 1 July 2025 and it is recorded here as spent. ⚠️ Two things a reader should not be allowed to assume. First, the register at pd.rkn.gov.ru/registerOffenders is NOT an enforcement-decision corpus: it lists domains and IP addresses a court has ordered blocked, naming no penalty and describing no conduct, and this product models it as a separate data type rather than counting hostnames as enforcement matters. Second, Russia has no subordinate AI regulation on the federal publication portal — a search of publication.pravo.gov.ru returned exactly one federal AI-titled instrument, 243-ФЗ itself, and that reading is re-asked weekly against a control term so that a new decree cannot pass unnoticed.