Anton Vadimovich Gorelkin (russian: Антон Вадимович Горелкин; born 22 January 1982,

Kemerovo Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Ba ...

) is a Russian political figure and a deputy of

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and 8th State Dumas. At the beginning of the 2000s, Gorelkin worked as a journalist and a correspondent for the

TASS The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

in the Kemerovo Region. In 2011, he started working for the Administration of the

Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo Oblast — Kuzbass (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть — Кузба́сс, translit=Kemerovskaya oblast — Kuzbass, ), also known simply as Kemerovo Oblast (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть, label=non ...

, where he worked as deputy governor. In 2016, he became the deputy of the

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. In September 2021, he was re-elected for the

8th State Duma The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 8th convocation (russian: Государственная Дума Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации восьмого созы� ...

from the Kemerovo Oblast constituency. Gorelkin is known for his support of implementing the sovereign internet. In 2019, he authored a bill that would restrict foreign ownership of internet resources that are recognized as being "significant" in the Russian Federation to 20%. However, the bill was not accepted in that version and was sent for a revision. Gorelkin re-introduced a new draft law in December 2020 that proposed limiting foreign shareholdings in Russian companies that offer online video streaming services to 20%. According to the suggested amendments, video services whose share of the Russian audience is less than 50% will be able to open representative offices in Russia. The project is planned to be considered in April 2022. Gorelkin also actively supported the introduction of the single audience meter in

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that would gather all the data on the audience of Internet media, audiovisual services, news aggregators and TV channels.

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