The number of Russian sites with child pornography declined by half for the last 2 years. Such data was presented by the International Association of Internet Hotlines INHOPE.
In February 2011, the share of the Russian Federation as the host of child pornography was 29%. Russia has took the first place together with the United States and Thailand. However, over two years, this figure fell to 13%, and now Russia is on the third place. The greatest number of resources with child pornography is now registered in the Netherlands and the United States.
Experts think that the positive result was achieved due to the work of the League of Internet Security, which was established in early 2011. Particularly, the League signed an agreement with the social network “VKontakte” administration to completely eradicate the child pornography from the network.
In addition, the League also set up a “hotline” for reporting the presence of dangerous content in the Russian segment of the Internet (RUnet). The great role in the fight against illegal content have played volunteers, who helped to solve 300 crimes in the Russian segment of the Internet.
Still the Executive Director of the League of Internet Security Denis Davydov claims that child pornography is the main problem in the Russian segment of the Internet . “Russia still occupies a shameful third place as a distributor of child pornography, so it’s important to understand that this is everyone’s problem, which we must fight together”.
