UPDATE: Apple, Likee place e-form for feedback on their resources

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MOSCOW, Jan 17 (PRIME) -- Apple and social network Likee have embedded an electronic form for communication with Russian households and firms in compliance with the country’s law localizing foreign companies on their information resources, according to the information on the communications service’s website seen by PRIME on Monday.

Apple, Likee, and messenger Viber earlier registered their accounts on the official website of the communications watchdog.

The companies are yet to open a branch, a representative office, or set up a Russian firm.

The law obliging foreign IT giants to open accounts with the communications service’s website came into force on January 1.

The companies with the daily audience of over 500,000 Russians must open local offices that represent the interests of the head firms entirely and are the main channels of interaction with the Russian authorities.

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