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The Prosecutor General’s Office, at the request of a member of the Federation Council, Elena Mizulina, began checking the legality of the installation of baby boxes in the Russian regions. This was reported by the press service of the senator.

"Your appeal regarding the legality of the installation in the organizations of the Baby boxes, their activities, the reliability of information about the number of children left in them and their subsequent device, it is accepted for consideration. The check was organized," the response of the supervisory authority said.

At the end of June, Mizulina sent an official request to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with a request to clarify the position of the Prosecutor General's Office regarding the practice of creating Baby boxes in Russia. She also demanded that the prosecutor’s audit of organizations where the bet-boxes were installed, including with the aim of establishing reliable information about the number of children left in them and their subsequent fate.

The request stated that the spread of the practice of using baby boxes entails many risks. Among them, Mizulina indicated "an increase in the number of refusals from newborns, a significant increase in the risks of children's trafficking, a violation of the child’s right to identity, that is, the right to know who his biological parents, the possibility of creating a shadow canal for illegal adoption of children to countries in which the adoption of Russian children is prohibited."

On June 3, Mizulina introduced a bill on the ban on Baby Baby in Russia to the State Duma. She proposed to prescribe in the legislation that "activities aimed at organizing anonymous abandonment of children, including the creation and maintenance of specialized places for anonymous abandonment of the child, are not allowed."

The initiative also provides for liability for legal entities for creating conditions for anonymous abandonment of children. The creation by a legal entity of a baby boxes, the maintenance of such places, or the provision of premises for these purposes, entails the imposition of an administrative fine on legal entities in the amount of 1 to 5 million rubles or an administrative suspension of activities for up to 90 days, the draft law says.

In the explanatory note, Mizulin noted that the practice of anonymous abandonment of newborn children in specialized places entails an increase in the number of failures: "This trend is recorded in all countries where such a practice has or takes place." The senator also referred to a study conducted in Germany. "The main argument of supporters of the creation of a baby boxes is that they allow you to preserve the life of a newborn, prevent the murder of their child with the mother. However, according to a study conducted by the German Institute of Youth, the opportunity to anonymously hand over the child does not affect the number of cases of infanticide (murder of a newborn mother)," the document says.

The explanatory note also notes that, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the number of registered killings by the mother of a newborn child over the past 7 years in Russia has doubled. According to Mizulina, this dynamics is not associated with the presence of a baby boxes, but "with a radical change in the state policy in relation to the family, birth and education of children."