Starting March 1, 2026, websites offering remote sales of tobacco and nicotine-containing products will be blocked without a court order. This is stated in the relevant government decree.

The authority to block websites is granted to the Federal Service for Alcohol and Tobacco Market Control (Rosalkogoltabakkontrol). The regulation covers offers for online sales of tobacco, nicotine-containing products, devices for their consumption, as well as vapes and hookahs — their remote retail sale is prohibited by the law on protecting citizens' health from the effects of tobacco smoke.

The mechanism is not new: since 2018, the same approach has been applied to websites offering remote sales of alcohol and alcohol-containing products. Now it extends to the tobacco segment.

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