Rospotrebnadzor

Rospotrebnadzor Introduces Age-Based Screen Time Limits for Russian School Students

Russia's consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor has established recommended maximum durations for schoolchildren working with computers and interactive whiteboards during lessons. The limits vary by grade, ranging from 20 minutes for first and second graders up to 35 minutes for students in grades 10 and 11. Separate rules apply to interactive boards, capping usage at 20 minutes for children under 10 and 30 minutes for older students. Schools must ensure students perform eye exercises when electronic devices are used, while traditional paper-based classes require such exercises only during breaks. Starting September 1 2026, a nationwide ban on mobile phones during lessons will also take effect, with individual schools deciding rules for recess periods.

Rospotrebnadzor and FAS to Extend Oversight to Websites: Automating Foreign Word Replacement Using LLM

Russian compliance experts have developed a specialized microservice called Normograph that combines multi-stage filtering, OCR, and LLM processing to help organizations meet the requirements of Federal Law 168-FZ on protecting the Russian language. The system automatically identifies prohibited foreign borrowings and Latin script on websites, cross-references them against official dictionaries approved by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and suggests context-aware Russian replacements while preserving marketing meaning and grammatical agreement. It excludes registered trademarks, brand names, and terms without Russian equivalents using dynamic white lists and Rospatent data. The solution processes pages up to 20 times faster than manual review by filtering out already-compliant words before sending only problematic fragments to the language model. An OCR module based on Yandex Cloud Vision extends checks to images and banners. The service was built with GigaChat API but remains provider-agnostic and avoids sending full pages or confidential data to foreign AI services.