{"raw_record_id":"80f2ecd6-3679-44e9-841b-061b1d5b378c","external_id":"member:OJ:L_202601708:88","record_hash":"79a779a141fff6c2265f521d21f839ffbf47e978475114834adc28d4c1e2a00d","raw_record":{"gender":"female","source":"EUR-Lex","aliases":["Елена Геннадьевна БАГУДИНА"],"reasons":["Elena Bagudina is the General Director of Communication Platform LLC, which is a subsidiary of VK (previously known as VKontakte) and the developer and manager of state-supported mobile phone application Max. In her position as General Director, she is responsible for the development and management of the Max application. The development of the Max application was supervised by the Federal Security Service (FSB), which established the requirements that the developers of the Max application had to meet. The Max application must be pre-installed on all mobile phones and tablets sold in Russia and is integrated with the Gosuslugi service.","According to numerous experts, the Max application has extensive surveillance features and can monitor communications, including the use of virtual private networks (VPNs), gather data on other applications installed on phones, monitor address books, identify the location of users and install autonomous updates. The introduction and promotion of the Max application by the Russian state have been accompanied by a crackdown on and blocking of other independent applications, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, as well as by a campaign to limit the use of VPNs, which allowed users to access content blocked in Russia.","Information gathered by Russian authorities through the Max application served as a basis to fine a Russian citizen for content posted on the application.","Therefore, Elena Bagudina provides technical support for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition, including by assisting and facilitating such acts."],"legal_act":{"oj_id":"202601708","title":"COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2026/1708 of 13 July 2026 implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1485 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Russia","eli_url":"https://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2026/1708/oj","celex_id":"32026R1708","annex_ref":"Annex IV","fetch_url":"https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/0bf57705-7e9c-11f1-bf5e-01aa75ed71a1.0006.03/DOC_1","act_number":"2026/1708","base_celex":"32024R1485","regime_name":"Russia human rights","program_code":"EU-2024-1485","declared_rows":16,"expected_rows":16,"amendment_date":"2026-07-13","structural_rows":16},"birth_date":"1954-03-11","name_lines":["Elena Gennadyevna BAGUDINA","(Russian: Елена Геннадьевна БАГУДИНА)"],"row_number":"88","birth_date_text":"11.3.1954","date_designated":"2026-07-13","identifying_information":["Position: General Director of Communication Platform LLC","DOB: 11.3.1954","Nationality: Russian","Gender: female"]},"snapshot_id":"cd0cc155-c145-4f42-abaf-8d0bb9dbf5c0","snapshot_sha256":"710f7ce7b7c7f01ddb5c011129fa5e76fe40fc7705d8dc01a000f763f19edb7e","fetched_at":"2026-09-04T10:38:54.240683+00:00","source_name":"EUR-Lex","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/","document_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202601708"}