Editing Telecommunications in Russia (section)

==Emergency calls==
In December 2010, then [[President of Russia|President]] [[Dmitry Medvedev]] signed a [[Decree of the President of Russia|presidential decree]] enabling the implementation of a single number, 112, for emergency services in all the regions of Russia. Transition to the new emergency number will be gradual; it is envisaged that 112 will replace the previous emergency numbers 01, 02, 03 and 04 by 2017. In December 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing the single emergency service number 112 throughout the country.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://ria.ru/society/20131122/979048711.html#ixzz2m9ySjpft| title =Госдума приняла закон о бесплатном номере вызова экстренных служб| work =[[RIA Novosti]]| date =22 November 2013| access-date = 30 November 2013}}</ref> In a press conference in December 2013, Minister of Emergency Situations [[Vladimir Puchkov]] said that the unified system will be running in a full pilot mode from 2014 and will fully enter to operational mode in 2016.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://tasstelecom.ru/news/one/26703| title =ТАСС-Телеком Система единого вызова экстренных служб "112" полностью заработает в России в 2016 году — Пучков| work =Tass Telecom| access-date =27 December 2013| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20131228050328/http://tasstelecom.ru/news/one/26703| archive-date =28 December 2013}}</ref>