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Twitter vice president discusses data sharing with Russian watchdog

Twitter’s Vice President Colin Crowell and Alexander Zharov, director of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, discussed Twitter's compliance with Russian laws

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Twitter’s Vice President Colin Crowell has discussed sharing data with Russian authorities with Alexander Zharov, director of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, the authority said in a statement Monday.

“The meeting participants have discussed issues of law implementation, in particular, concerning Twitter's compliance with Russian laws. The participants have agreed to create a special communications channel on demands by the Russian oversight authority,” it said.

The Twitter executive visited Russia before to discuss new laws on protecting children from harmful information, data protection and bloggers as mass media representatives.