The moratorium covers facilities that sustained damage from January 1 of this year, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko said. Scheduled inspections of such sites will not be carried out.
Unscheduled inspections will remain possible only at the request of the prosecutor's office, on orders from the president or government, when violations are suspected, or in a state of emergency.
Certain sectors are exempt. At industrial facilities, and in education and transport security, unscheduled inspections will be retained in full.
The government attributed the decision to a desire to support businesses restoring damaged facilities. According to Grigorenko, companies' resources should be focused on reconstruction work rather than on control procedures.
The moratorium followed a rise in the number of attacks on facilities in Russia. This summer, drone strikes hit warehouses belonging to marketplaces Wildberries and Ozon, as well as oil refining enterprises. According to The Insider, attacks on refineries triggered a fuel crisis in the regions.
In late August, the government created a subcommission to protect important enterprises from attacks. As Meduza reported, insufficiently protected facilities were at risk of being transferred to state management. The authorities had already used a similar mechanism to limit inspections in 2022-2024, announcing it in March 2022 amid sanctions.