I've just found this interesting info.

As GOG requires user's email address for registration purposes, and email address is treated as "personal data", I wonder if GOG has any plans to move its servers to Russia?

They probably have something easy in the background, like a law that says they can seize all data if they suspect something and can get a warrant...

Garden of eden
Considering in the US warrants were given for neighbors with long grass (as an excuse) then allowing them to move in a swat team and force unarmed families out at gunpoint. The government can likely make up any excuse to access data servers within their country. They could be trying to access data in an attempt to do what the CIA is currently doing, and that's spy on everyone (especially their own citizens).

Considering most of their userbase is outside russia i sincerely doubt it....

The article makes it sounds like it'd make it easier for the govt to shut down dissent. Apparently a few years ago there were sizable protests enabled by social networks like facebook and twitter, and these were beyond govt control. Sounds like they want to be able to shut that kind of thing down to prevent "Arab Spring" type events or similar.

I'm not techy enough to know how countries can block out of country websites, but I guess it can be done.

Sounds to me like a cover up for a covert operation or distraction. But maybe this was too obvious. I mean, it says they were on a raid because of major trafficking of marijuana, but yet they found nothing, or did they? Maybe that's a lie.

You'd surmise TMZ, Fox and CNN could do a better job with disinformation.
Still, it is surreal to think of a swat team raiding a hacker's bedroom.

From what i've seen and gathered, it's the local political and government authorities trying to force everyone to comply. There are multiple cases of people who are self sufficient (not reliant on the system) that get attacked. Robin Sperronis in florida suddenly getting evicted from her own home for now using the grid (electricity or water/sewer/gas). Getting thrown in jail for collecting rain water. Turtle Island raid where they look for anything they can to shut down a reservation and teaching school (Most likely because they want the land so they can build something of their own). A 11 yearold cupcake business gets shut down. There's dozens of these.

Off the grid news might be something to look over, gets into more of these stories.

Think of the Children ;-P

Oh, a communist regime trying to isolate its citizens from the world?
That's something new.

I don't think email is personal info is it? Does the Russian law specifically define it as such?

Since Russia is led by KGB, I wonder how they dare to use those terms at all.

http://www.factpile.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/we-come-in-peace-iron-sky-trailer.jpg Land of the free...

A free and open internet is probably going to kill them.

Not sure if serious. ?_?

It's one of the lines in the song/link referenced just above...

Think of the children

Go ahead, click it, you know you want to...

I think it has more to do that Russia wants to attract (with force) more of this sort of technology to its country for employment and acquiring know how and probably most of all to improve the digital infrastructure.
If it was a repressive measure they would simply block/censor those networks.