By registering by the user in Valdai Discussion Club website through the account or user accounts in social networks indicates acceptance of these rules.

User is obliged not to violate the laws of the Russian Federation.

User is obliged to be respectful to other commenters, readers and persons mentioned in the articles.

Comments are published only in languages​​, which correspond to the basic content of the material.

On the Valdai Discussion Club website comments may be edited, including preliminary ones. This means that the moderator checks the comments for the correspondence to these rules after the comment was published and has become available to other users, as well as before the comment was made available to other users.

User comment may be deleted if:

• It does not correspond to the subject of the page;
• promotes hatred or discrimination on racial, ethnic, sexual, religious or social grounds, infringe upon the rights of minorities;
• violates the rights of minors, causing them harm in any way;
• contains ideas of extremist and terrorist nature, calls for the violent change of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation;
• contains insults or threats to other users, individuals or organizations that discredit honor, dignity or undermine their reputation;
• contains insults or messages expressing disrespect to the Valdai International Discussion Club, its experts or its employees;
• violates privacy, distributes personal data of third persons without their consent, discloses secrecy of correspondence;
• containslinks to the scenes of violence, cruelty to animals;
• contains information on how to commit suicide, incites to suicide;
• pursues commercial objectives, contains improper advertising, illegal political advertising or links to other webpages containing similar information;
• is obscene or contains foul language and its derivatives, as well as hints at the usage of lexical items within this definition;
• contains spam, advertises spamming, spam mailing services and resources for earning in the Internet;
• promotes narcotic/psychotropic drugs, contains information about their manufacture and use;
• contains links to viruses and malicious software;
• is part of the action with a lot of comments of the same or similar content (flash mob);
• abuses by writing a large number of incoherent or irrelevant posts (flood);
• user violates netiquette, showing forms of aggressive, humiliating and abusive behavior (trolling);
• user disrespects the English language, the text is entirely or predominantly written in capital letters or not split into sentences.

Please write competently - comments which disregard the language rules can be deleted regardless of content.

The administration has the right to block user access to the page without notice in case of the systematic violation or a single serious violation of the website rules .

Пользователь может инициировать восстановление своего доступа, написав письмо на адрес электронной почты moderator@rian.ru

The e-mail must include:

• Theme - restoring access
• User login
• Explanation of actions that were in violation of the mentioned rules.

The access will be restored, if moderators consider it possible.

In case of second violation of the rules the user ban will be complete.

Чтобы связаться с командой модераторов, используйте адрес электронной почты moderator@rian.ru or Skype: moderatorria.