National Report on Freedom of Information in Russia

This summary of a detailed legal and sociological analysis of the state of access in the Russian Federation, identifying contradictions between the Constitutional right in Article 29 (for every person to “seek, get, transfer, produce and disseminate information by any legal means”) and the actual legal norms and official practices, was prepared by the Institute for Freedom of Information Development and published by freedominfo.org. For the complete report (in Russian), see http://freedominfo.org/documents/national_report_foia_russia.pdf.