Sec. 3. Support Russian civil society
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall convene a meeting of senior leaders of United States technology companies that sell, license, or otherwise facilitate the installation of tools that allow the Government of Russia to censor, harass, or suppress the activities of civil society activists. Such meeting shall focus on developing a common code of conduct to restrain United States companies aiding and abetting the Government of Russia’s efforts to suppress Russian civil society, fundamental freedoms in Russia, and efforts to expose corruption on the part of the Government of Russia.
In addition to amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated for the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ International Broadcasting Operations Fund, there is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 to expand Russian language programming and to provide for the dissemination of accurate and independent information to the Russian people through online media, radio, television, cellular telephone, short message service, and other communications. The Broadcasting Board of Governors shall identify those countries that serve as Russian vacation destinations and further target United States international broadcasting and programming activities towards such countries.
To achieve the objectives described in paragraph (1), amounts in the International Broadcasting Operations Fund referred to in such subparagraph may be used to develop— additional transmission capability for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, including through additional shortwave and medium wave transmissions, satellite, and Internet mechanisms; additional proxy server capability and anti-censorship technologies to counter efforts by the Government of Russia to censor political and civil society activities, such as blocking of the Telegram app, and investigations into corruption on the part of the Government of Russia; technologies to counter efforts to block SMS text message exchange over cellular phone networks; and additional digital programs and operations for Voice of America in Russia.
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(1)of section 8(e) of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 ( 22 U.S.C. 8927(e) ; Public Law 118–272 ) is amended by striking 2018 and inserting 2020 .
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