The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation will develop a definition of the concept of public morality and criteria for its violation in the media

The Ministry of Culture of Russia was engaged in the development of determining the concept of public morality and the criteria for its violation in the media. This is stated in the letter of Deputy Minister Andrei Busygin to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (RPSC) to Metropolitan Cornelius.

In March of this year , the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church sent the Minister of Culture Alexander Sokolov , in which he came up with the initiative to create a censorship-supervision committee in the country, whose functions would include defects in various spheres of public life, including the media.

“The leadership of the Russian Ministry of Culture shares your concern about the current situation in the media, ” the text of the response letter of A. Busygin, published today on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, quotes.

The official noted that the Ministry of Council created the Public Council for the support of socially significant projects and public morality in the media.

Currently, one of the working groups of the Council “is working to develop the concept of“ public morality ”and its criteria, the development of identification signs of violation of the criteria of“ public morality ”, the methodology for introducing a constant monitoring of violations of“ public morality ”in the media and its effective support,” the deputy minister said.

In addition, he continued, the Ministry of Culture, together with the stakeholders of the legislative and executive authorities, is currently working on amendments to the Federal Law "On Mass Media" in the part regarding the expansion of supervisory functions in the media.

"The measures taken to observe compliance with the law in the field of mass communications will change the current situation in the field of the media," the deputy minister said in a letter.

The representative of the ministry also advised Metropolitan Cornelius to apply on the creation of a public supervisory committee to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

A. Busygin noted that in accordance with Article 19 of the Federal Law "On Mass Media", the media editorial office build their etheric policy based on professional independence. "The issues of placing programs on the television, including the choice of subjects, the genre of transmissions, authors and leading, are exclusively in the competence of the leadership of television companies," the deputy head of the Ministry of Culture notes in a letter.