The Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications is a federal body of executive authority responsible for providing state services and managing state property. It also implements legal regulation in the press, media, and mass communications sphere, including shared-use computer networks of the electronic media, publishing and printing sectors.

The Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications has the following functions:

• to implement legal regulation and render state services in the sphere of creating and operating the media, mass communications, television and radio broadcasting networks, using the radio-frequency spectrum and telecommunications-satellite orbits for television and radio broadcasting purposes, expanding and disseminating mass communications; and in the information-exchange sphere, broadcasting additional information, shared-use computer networks of the electronic media, publishing, and printing sectors;

• to keep joint nationwide registers listing the media, mass communications, television and radio broadcasting companies, and audio and video producers.