Dirtually specifically

The government proposed specifying the concept of "obsceneity" in the bill on the ban on the mat in the media, Gazeta.ru reports. "The proposed changes do not cause objections, however, the concept of" obscene abuse "is not defined in the bill and requires concretization," the government said.

It is also noted that in Russia there is already a law (clause 6 of Article 1 of the Law "On the State Language of the Russian Federation"), which establishes a ban on the use of words and expressions when using the Russian language.

"Article 2 of the bill is proposed to supplement Article 5 of the Federal Law" On State Support for Cinematography of the Russian Federation "Part of the Third, which provides that the rental certificate for the film is not issued in case of use of obsceneity in the film," the report said.

On March 19, the State Duma adopted a bill in the final reading, establishing fines for the use of obscene words and expressions in the media. The bill provides for amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses. The punishment for the manufacture or distribution of the media products containing a match is provided for in the form of a fine with confiscation of the subject of the offense. What exactly will be confiscated is not specified.

One of the authors of the bill Vice-Speaker of the State Duma, Uneneros, Sergei Zheleznyak, noted earlier that there is currently responsibility for matches in public places, and for the mat in the media, which "in essence are also a public space", there is no such responsibility.

Dmitry Vyatkin, a representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court, emphasized when considering the bill that the bill also applies to the Internet media. He explained that the bill cannot be given a list of obscene words, the use of which limits the new norm. He explained this by the fact that there was never such a closed list. Determine what is considered obscenities will be philologists. "I talked with philologists, specialists, they say that for them there is no problem. There are appropriate dictionaries and research," Vyatkin said when discussing the bill in the committee.

In February, Zheleznyak proposed supplementing Article 4 of the Media Law with an paragraph on obsceneity. "If the media will persistently violate the law, then in addition to the fine, it can achieve a warning, and after a second warning - and closing, which would not want to," he said. Uneneros proposed to put this amendment on the vote simultaneously with the adoption of amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses in the second reading.

However, the government skeptically reacted to the initiative of Zheleznyak. “Fundamentally, the Ministry of Communications and the State Duma does not diverge about the fact that it is impossible to swear in the media,” said Alexei Volin, deputy minister of communications and mass communications. “Two circumstances are worried: the first - we already have a legislation that prohibits swearing, and the provisions of one law should not be in conflict with the provisions of the new law. The second - the law says not only about the ban on the mat, but we have an obscene swearing. A clear instruction of the Ministry of Justice that the very concept of obscene swearing is too wide, and lexical uncertainty can become a corruption factor when applying the law. "

At the end of August 2012, Roskomnadzor initiated amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses in order to introduce administrative fines for obscene abuse in the media. As the department reported, this was done "in connection with the frequent appeals of citizens and organizations regarding the use of non -normative vocabulary in the media." The agency noted the ineffectiveness of explanatory measures.