Rather, it is those who contend the most
against cults that are also affected. Outside "approved" (PC) churches and other religious sites the Yarovaya law broadly forbids in
word and deed "the activity of a religious association aimed at disseminating information about its beliefs among people who are not participants (members, followers) in that religious association, with the purpose of involving these people as participants and its results" and thus requiring "telecom providers to store the content of voice calls, data, images and text messages for 6 months, and their metadata (e.g. time, location and message sender and recipients) for 3 years,"