Russian Federation / 2014 43% open

Brief Description: Russia has special official web portal for government procurement (spending) information. This procurement platform does include all purchases of the government.

Brief Description There is special government source for statistic information publication http://fedstat.ru/. Federal Law "On official statistical records and the system of state statistics in the Russian Federation" (article 5, paragraph 10) stipulates that official statistical information in Russia is available. Government Decree № 367 (26 may 2010) "On the unified interdepartmental information and statistical system" establishes that access to official statistical information in the system, is carried out on a free and nondiscriminatory basis (paragraphs 4-5). There is no any legal restriction for use and reuse statistic information for commercial purposes. Also there is special terms of use on the Federal Statistic Service web site http://www.gks.ru/opendata/. On the http://fedstat.ru data in not available in bulk Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist? Yes, via website http://fedstat.ru 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://fedstat.ru 6. Is the data machine readable? Yes, data provided as SDMX and XLS files 7. Available in bulk? No, it's not bulk yet. 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is public domain data but no open license available. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on monthly basis.

Comment: No changes since 2013 year

Brief Description: Russian budget data is one of most open data but a bit dispersed over a few government websites. Well prepared machine readable data available on new government webisite Budget.gov.ru right here - http://budget.gov.ru/data/opendata This data is XML data dumped from government database as XML dumps with XSD (XML schemas) provided. Budget.gov.ru is beta-stage portal for now (November 2014) and this data is not up to date . Up to date data published as XLS on websites of Federal Treasury (http://roskazna.ru) and Ministry of Finances (http://minfin.ru) I suggest to accept this data XML but not to accept it as timely updated for now. Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist? Yes, national level budget data available at - http://budget.gov.ru/data/opendata 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://budget.gov.ru/data/opendata 6. Is the data machine readable? Yes, this data provided as XML files 7. Available in bulk? Mostly yes, you need to download a few XML files 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is not formally under open license from OpenDefinition.org 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, data updated monthly

Brief description: Transport timetables is one of most common issues here in Russia Timetables managed not by federal, but by regional and local governments. Each regional and local governments publish with several issues: 1. Data is not always published online 2. Data is not always up to date 3. Data is not available as open data 4. No open licenses 5. Measurement of openness of transport data is very limited since it's not concentrated anythere. But rail transport schedules and most airports are public so timetables available. Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist? Yes, national level transport timetables available at http://pass.rzd.ru - it's Russian rail data 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://pass.rzd.ru 6. Is the data machine readable? No, this data provided only as HTML pages 7. Available in bulk? No, this data provided only as HTML pages so it's not available in bulk. 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is owned by federal state enterprise and it's not even public domain data. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on hourly basis.

Comment: No updates since 2013 year

Brief Description: All Russian laws and other official documents that came from government ministries, agencies and federal services published using a few government websites. Base website is http://pravo.gov.ru - this project is being maintained by Federal Security Service (FSS) and this website is keystone for Russian laws disclosure. A few serious issues exists with Russian laws: 1. No machine readable data 2. No bulk download 3. No open licenses for laws 4. Government websites not integrated with pravo.gov.ru instead they provide links to the commercial providers of laws information like Russian companies "Consultant" (http://consultant.ru) and "Garant" (http://www.garant.ru). 5. Laws published on many of government websites available as "high quality scanned images". Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist? Yes, at http://pravo.gov.ru

1. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website pravo.gov.ru

2. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it.

3. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required.

4. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://pravo.gov.ru

5. Is the data machine readable? No, it's only HTML pages.

6. Available in bulk? No, data is not available for bulk download

7. Openly licensed? No, this data is public domain data but no open license available.

8. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on daily basis.

Comment: No updates since 2013 year

Brief description: Actually Russian level of electoral data openness is quite high. Since we have unified federal information system for registration of elections results so all results collected and available via website http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom It allows to select specific election and to view results with details up to election district. At the same time a few issues exists: 1. No machine readable data 2. No bulk download 3. No open licenses 4. No geodata for election comissions and electoral districs locations Step by step explanation: 1. Does the data exist? Yes, data exists here - http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website ahttp://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://www.izbirkom.ru/region/izbirkom 6. Is the data machine readable? No, data is not machine readable, only HTML. 7. Available in bulk? No, only HTML form of data available 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is public domain data but no open license available. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on daily basis.

Brief Description: Russian companies registry data is available for everybody via http://egrul.nalog.ru website. This data is up to date, free, but limited by company name, it's unique registration number, address and short list of latest registration actions without details. Any finacial information provided with fee or via commercial services. Most important issues: 1. No machine readable data 2. No bulk download 3. No open licenses 4. Data hidden behind captcha 5. Public information is very limited Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist? Yes, data published via http://egrul.nalog.ru and also known as available via a few commercial operators. 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website egrul.nalog.ru 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes. Following data available for free: - unique numbers: INN and OGRN - name - address - registration operations 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://egrul.nalog.ru 6. Is the data machine readable? No, public data is not machine readable 7. Available in bulk? No 8. Openly licensed? No, this data is public domain data but no open license available. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on daily basis.

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We tried to find this data many times but it's not centralized and most likely unavailable as unified dataset. Russian government delegates ecological issues and pollution monitoring to regional level of the executive government branch. But regional government rarely publish pollution monitoring information and pollution sources. I know only a few public data sources available like Mosecomonitoring (Moscow ecological survey). But even whose data source do not publish source of pollutants, they publish only level of pollutants measured by monitoring stations. Even this information rarely available as datasets, most often this is only "images" and "graphics". So availability of pollutants data for Russian Federation is about 80% - for "No", and only about 20% for "yes". The only available sources: - http://dynamic.igce.ru/ (not up to date) - pollution monitoring and radiation monitoring (by Rosatom) - http://www.russianatom.ru/ I suggest this dataset for following review.

Overview in PDF (2012): http://www.mnr.gov.ru/upload/iblock/96e/gosdoklad%2020_07_2013.pdf Overview in PDF (2013): http://www.meteorf.ru/upload/iblock/23f/Obzor_2013_by_Chernogaeva_16072014.pdf

Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist?
Yes.

1. Is data in digital form?
   Yes, data available via website(-s)

2. Publicly available?
   Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it.

3. Is the data available for free?
   Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required.

4. Is the data available online?
   Yes.

5. Is the data machine readable?
   No, it's not machine readable. Only PDF file.

6. Available in bulk?
   No, data is not in bulk

7. Openly licensed?
   No.

8. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

A database of postcodes/zipcodes and a corresponding geospatial locations in terms of a latitude and a longitude (or similar co-ordinates in an openly published national co-ordinate system). DOES NOT EXIST You can only get a list of postcodes, no geospatial information. At the same time we now that by url http://www.russianpost.ru/rp/servise/ru/home/postuslug/searchops1#resultancor we could find a web form using that we could find postcode by address. So we know that address data exists but it is not publicly available

Comment: No changes since 2013 year

Open geodata is still unavailable both for public and organizations.