«Gorodissky» in media

13 November 2018

Medvedev and Goryachev outlined, "According to the appeal, Telegram cited various arguments, including lack of jurisdiction as well as technical impossibility to fulfil the decoding request filed by the FSB to decode messages of the persons suspected of terror activity. The appeal court noted that fulfilling such a request is a legitimate obligation and that no evidence of impossibility to fulfil was provided."

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10 August 2018

Customs officers in Siberia have stopped 1,500 counterfeit Rubik’s Cubes at the the Russian border. An administrative case into the illegal use of a trademark has been launched at the request of the Rubik’s company’s Russian representatives, a Moscow-based law firm named Gorodissky & Partners specializing in intellectual property rights.

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6 June 2018

DataGuidance confirmed with Sergey Medvedev, Senior Lawyer at Gorodissky & Partners, "The operator of the System must provide banks, state authorities or organisations with information regarding the match of personal data [contained in the System with the biometric data that they have collected]. The Draft Decree sets out the methods for checking data and the obligation of the operator of the System to inform banks, state authorities or organisations about the degree of mutual compliance in relation to the provided data."

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19 April 2018

Sergey Medvedev and Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyers at Gorodissky & Partners, told DataGuidance, “The Telegram case (‘the Case’) […] demonstrates the legal consequences of non-compliance with Article 10.1(4.1) of Federal Law of 27 July 2006 No. 149-FZ on Information, Information Technologies and the Protection of Information (‘the Law’). [The Case] clearly shows shows that non-compliance with data protection legislation […] may affect business operations […] in Russia, especially online, whether the company is domestic or foreign.

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14 November 2017

DataGuidance confirmed, on 10 November 2017, with Sergey Medvedev and Ilya Goryachev, Senior Lawyers at Gorodissky & Partners, that the Russian Ministry of Communications ('Minsyaz') had submitted a proposal to the Russian Government ('the Proposal') that aims to introduce a gradual increase in the data retention periods for telecommunications operators ('telcos') under the Federal Law No. 374-FZ on Amending the Federal Law on Counteracting Terrorism and Other Legislative Acts to Provide for Additional Measures to Counteract Terrorism and to Ensure Public Safety ('Yarovaya Law'), which will enter into force on 1 July 2018.

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