Foreign Internet services will need to store in Russia only data received after September 1, 2015

Amendments to the Law on Personal Data will not have retroactive effect: databases that were modified until September 1, 2015 can be stored in their original locations. But after any changes, which do not include the reading of data, they should be transferred to physical servers located in Russia.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said on Monday that eBay and AliExpress marketplaces will store personal data of citizens obtained from September 1, 2015 in Russia, Vedomosti writes . According to the official, Google has similar intentions. Vladimir Dolgov, the general director of the Russian office of eBay, said that the company will place the personal data of Russian citizens on its own servers in the country.

The representative of Roskomnadzor Vadim Ampelonsky confirmed that the amendments to the laws will not have retroactive effect.

Valentin Krokhin, a representative of Jet Infosystems, warned in 2014 that storing data in Russia would be 30% more expensive than in foreign data centers, due to more stringent requirements for their protection.
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The government is currently working on the technical components necessary for compliance with the law: for example, it is not yet known how they will check the dates of the latest changes in the records.