Zhirinovsky proposes to cancel the 282nd article

The LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky introduced a bill to the State Duma on the abolition of criminal punishment for the initiation of hatred or enmity on racial, national, religious, sexual and social attribute. As Rosbalt reports, Zhirinovsky proposes, in particular, to exclude Article 282 from the Criminal Code, which provides for criminal punishment for up to 5 years of imprisonment for crime in the form of “actions aimed at initiating hatred or enmity, as well as to humiliate the dignity of a person or group of persons according to the grounds of gender, race, nationality, origin, attitude to religion, as well as belonging to any social group, as well as belonging to any social group, committed publicly or using the media. "

According to Zhirinovsky, such qualifying features "have a certain vague, the meaning of which can be brought to the absurdity and you can pervert them." “For example, is it punishable to publicly scold thieves and bandits, indicating their race, nationality, origin or attitude to religion, or employees of the police on the basis of nationality or attitude to religion?”, The LDPR leader argues. - Or is it criminal to tell "ethnic" jokes, not exciting hatred or enmity of Chukchs, Jews, gypsies, Russians? "

Zhirinovsky notes that the person who wrote a racist slogan may be responsible for this article. “Although no one could read the slogan, and he did not belong to a certain face, and no one was excited by hatred or hostility,” the deputy explains.

In his opinion, the intention of acts is necessary for the application of punishment under this article, but it is impossible to take this principle in article 282, since then it will be necessary to connect such concepts as “criminal”, “criminal behavior” - on the one hand and “nationality”, “ethnicity”, “religious affiliation” - on the other. ”

Zhirinovsky insists on the exclusion of this norm from the Criminal Code, since "the crime must be qualified according to the result of the act, and not by the goal," he said. In his opinion, similar changes in the exclusion of Article 282 should also be made to the Code of Criminal Procedure.