Antimonopoly regulation is aimed at ensuring conditions for the development of market competition and preventing over-monopolization in any market. The Russian Antimonopoly Service supervises over all business areas, ranging from industry and agriculture to information technologies and advertising.
One of the main activities of the Antimonopoly Service is advertisement control. Frequent types of violations include: distribution of advertising without user consent, violations in advertising of financial services and medicines, distribution of false advertising, as well as misleading advertising.