ERID Ad Labeling in Russia: What the Law Now Requires

What is ERID, and who has to obtain it?

ERID is the token every piece of internet advertising shown in Russia must carry, issued by an ORD operator accredited under Federal Law No. 347-FZ of 2 July 2021. The labeling requirement took effect on 1 September 2022, per Kontur's tracking of the statute. You request the code per creative, before publication, not once per campaign and not once per client relationship. It then travels with the ad through every hand that touches it.

Obtaining the token falls first on the advertiser, but anyone who distributes the ad inherits the same duty. A media buyer running a client's offer, an affiliate network syndicating a landing page, and a blogger posting a paid review each need their own registered participant ID inside the ORD system before an erid can be issued against their specific placement.

Which ads fall inside the scope?

Scope is defined by audience, not by where the advertiser is registered. Russian regulators treat any internet advertising directed at consumers in Russia as subject to labeling, 'independent of whether a Russian or foreign brand places it,' according to Sostav's 2026 guide to the ad-labeling regime. A Cyprus-registered affiliate network running a nutra offer to Moscow traffic owes the same erid duty as a Moscow ad agency — routing the buy through a foreign entity changes nothing.

Affiliate and partner links fall inside this scope too, and the trigger is indirect targeting, not an explicit Russia checkbox in an ad platform.

Operators buying across the wider region should keep this duty separate from unrelated country-level rules — Ukraine's Article 32 ad-language law governs what language a Ukrainian-facing ad must use, a different compliance axis entirely from Russian labeling. It also sits apart from the 72-FZ ban on advertising via platforms Russia deems extremist, which blocks placement on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and X outright from 1 September 2025. ERID governs a narrower question: whether an otherwise-permitted ad carries the right paperwork.

• A .ru or .рф domain in the landing page URL
• Russian-language ad copy or landing page
• Ruble pricing displayed to the visitor
• Delivery or fulfillment promised to the Russian Federation
• Russia set as a geotargeting parameter in the campaign

How does the ORD reporting chain actually work?

The chain runs through three parties: the advertiser, the ORD operator, and Roskomnadzor's ERIR register. You submit creative and campaign details to an accredited ORD operator, which issues the erid and forwards placement records into ERIR, the Unified Register of Internet Advertising. Several ORD operators compete for this business, so a buyer running placements across ten Russian publishers will often hold accounts with more than one.

• Register as a participant with an ORD operator before any Russia-facing campaign starts
• Submit each creative individually for its own erid token before it runs
• Mark the creative with the token plus a visible 'Реклама' (advertising) label
• The ORD operator reports placement data — dates, budget, parties, target URL — into ERIR

What is the internet advertising levy and who pays it?

The levy is a 3% quarterly charge on revenue from distributing internet advertising aimed at Russian users, introduced by Federal Law No. 479-FZ of 26 December 2024 and in force from 1 April 2025, per the Acsour and Sterngoff Audit analyses of the law. It lives in a new Article 18.2 of the Advertising Law and stands apart from the labeling fines — full erid compliance does not exempt you from it.

Payers are ad distributors, advertising-system operators and intermediaries, the parties that run or route the ad rather than necessarily the brand behind it. Roskomnadzor calculates what's owed from the same ERIR data the erid system already collects, so accurate reporting upstream now carries a direct revenue consequence downstream.

Who is liable within an affiliate chain?

Liability lands on both ends of the chain at once. Under KoAP Article 14.3(1), regulators can fine the advertiser (рекламодатель) and the distributor (рекламораспространитель) — the affiliate, blogger or network actually running the placement — for the same missing erid, per the ADPASS and eLama breakdowns of the fine structure. Being the network rather than the brand does not put you outside the exposure.

An affiliate link qualifies as advertising subject to labeling whenever it even indirectly targets a Russian audience, and the Salid affiliate-network legal guide points to the same indicators regulators use: a .ru domain, Russian-language copy, ruble pricing, delivery to the Russian Federation, or Russia geotargeting. Running the campaign through a foreign network, a foreign ad account or a foreign payment processor changes none of that. The trigger is the audience the ad reaches, not the infrastructure behind it.

What are the penalties for skipping it?

Penalties escalate fast once triggered, and enforcement has been live long enough that ignorance carries no weight. Two distinct violations under KoAP Article 14.3 have applied since 1 September 2023, per Kontur: failing to report placement data to ERIR, and distributing an ad without a valid erid identifier.

Both fines apply per placement, not per campaign, so a drip of ten unlabeled creatives across a quarter multiplies the exposure ten times over. None of these figures include the separate 72-FZ fines for advertising on a banned platform, running 2,000 RUB to 500,000 RUB depending on whether the violator is a citizen, official or legal entity, which stack on top if the same placement also runs on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn or X.

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