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Russia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral values

Federal Law No. 243-FZ covers models with 1 billion or more parameters, and the FSB gets to inspect them starting March 2027.

Rob Beschizza
Aug 14, 2026
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If you want to sell AI to the Russian state, you're going to have to tune it to the nation's "traditional spiritual and moral values" before you have a shot, reports Vedomosti, a Russian-language business daily out of Moscow. A summarized by Moscow Monitor, the requirements President Vladimir Putin signed into federal law last month apply to large AI fo…

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