The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation is a federal agency under the executive branch responsible for drafting and implementing national policy and legal regulation in:
information technology, including the creation of government information resources and the promotion of access to such resources
telecommunications, including the allocation of and conversion of the radio frequency spectrum, and postal communications
mass communications and the media, including the electronic media, the development of the Internet, television and radio broadcasting, and related technology
publishing and printing
personal data processing.
The Ministry of Communications and Mass Media administers the national postal system, and national and international telecommunications networks.
The Ministry coordinates and controls activities of the Federal Service for Supervision of Telecom and Mass Communications, the Federal Agency for Information Technologies, the Federal Communications Agency, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications.
Nikolay Nikiforov is the Head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media is of the Russian Federation.
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