Do not look for the Holy

Vladimir Putin introduced to the State Duma an amendment to the law on extremist activity prohibiting the search for extremism in the scriptures of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. The bill is published on the website of the lower house. In the evening of Wednesday, he was registered and sent to the State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin.

The text of the amendment reads : "The Bible, the Qur'an, Tanya and Ganjur, their content and quotes from them cannot be recognized as extremist materials."

At the same time, Ganjur (more correctly Kangur) is a Tibetan Buddhist canon. It is Tibetan Buddhism, also called tantric Buddhism or Vajrayana, who is the traditional religion of the indigenous peoples of Russia - Kalmyks, Buryat and Tuvans. Meanwhile, the Pali canon (Tititaka) recognized by the Theravada school, like Sanya Zan, is his Chinese translation, which is the fundamental for Mahayana Buddhism, - Putin’s correction of extremism is not guaranteed.

In the first half of September, a scandal erupted in connection with the decision of the South Sakhalin City Court on the recognition of the extremist series of the verses of the Koran. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called the judge Natalia Perechenko, who issued the relevant decision, and the prosecutor Tatyana Bilobrovets, by whose submission the decision was made, "national traitors and shaitans" and threatened them with reprisals. He later filed an appeal to the regional court to the decision of Perchenko.

On September 30, a group of deputies of all the State Duma factions introduced a bill to the Lower Chamber, involving the transfer of proceedings on the ban on publications for extremismfrom the competence of regional courts to maintain court courts . As one of the authors of the document explained, Zhirinovets Yaroslav Nilov, the impulse to the development of the law was just a scandal around Perechenko’s decision. In order to avoid such situations, Zhirinovets noted, highly qualified experts should be involved in the proceedings, and this, according to him, "can be more optimally provided in megacities and regional centers."

Meanwhile, at the end of September, Roskomnadzor banned Russian translations of several texts of the Pali canon . The officials did not see extremism in these texts, and the cause of the ban was called the propaganda of the suicide allegedly contained in them.