Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy stated that the activities of bloggers should receive their code in the All-Russian Classifier of Types of Economic Activity (OKVED). This was reported by TASS
“It is important that all these activities receive their own OKVED, it is important that various forces, including various political forces, offer bloggers to unite in different associations, this is very good,” he said.
He noted that many bloggers today have surpassed the audience of traditional media in terms of audience.
10 August Izvestia newspaper reportedIt was stated that the Ministry of Digital Development and Rosstandart may develop a draft amendment to OKVED, which assumes that blogging will be equated with economic activity. According to State Duma deputy Yana Lantratova, who proposed similar changes in OKVED, among bloggers there are a lot of professional and law-abiding people, but this activity must be within the legal framework.
Previously at Bloggers Association I suspected the need to include the blogosphere in OKVED.