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The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a bill on decriminalization of beatings in the family. According to RBC, 380 deputies voted for the document, against three.

In accordance with the adopted document from Article 116 of the Criminal Code, the possibility of prison punishment for the beatings of close relatives, "causing physical pain, but did not result in the consequences, is excluded. For this, only administrative punishment in the form of a fine of 30 thousand rubles, arrest for 15 days or correctional labor is provided. Criminal liability will occur only if the person who had already received an administrative penalty broke the relative again or if the beatings brought the harm recorded by doctors.

After the adoption of the bill in the State Duma in the first reading of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Turbiern Jagund sent a letter to the State Duma to the State Duma and the Federation Council, in which he expressed concern to the possible adoption of the law. The speaker of the lower house Vyacheslav Volodin, as Interfax reports , called the pressure on the State Duma unacceptable.

Volodin also stated that when developing the State Duma position on the bill on decriminalizing family small beatings, deputies were guided by sociological surveys, which show that almost 60 percent of Russians maintain a milder attitude to insignificant conflicts in the family without health consequences.

The Kremlin believes that family conflicts cannot be identified with violence. “It is necessary to clearly differentiate family relations and relapses. If you honor the bill, then you will pay attention to the fact that for cases of relapses it implies responsibility,” said the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “Responsibility is certainly needed, legal regulation, which would be an obstacle to family violence. But to identify insignificant manifestations with family violence, Probably also hardly possible. "

“However, hypertrophies, calls to responsibility for various manifestations of family relations would hardly be appropriate,” Peskov added.

In June 2016, the State Duma, among a number of other compositions , decriminalized beatings committed for the first time . The exception was made for beatings committed from hooliganism, based on hatred or enmity, as well as in relation to close relatives. Article 6.1.1 (beatings) was included in the Code of Administrative Offenses.

Member of the Council of Council Elena Mizulina considered the new edition of Article 116 of the Criminal Code (beatings) contradictory. According to her, the norm of the law "convinces us that the behavior of family members, for example, parents who applied light educational measures to the child in the form of slap, or conflicting spouses, is more socially dangerous than the behavior of an external person who has done beatings on the street."

On July 27, Mizulina introduced a bill similar to the current one to the State Duma. However, in October, the document received a negative review of the government, which stated that in the current version, Article 116 provides "timely identification and counteracting the facts of family violence, illegal behavior of parents and other persons prone to violent acts in relation to loved ones."

In November, the new bill on the decriminalization of beatings in the family in the State Dumawas introduced by four unicorns : deputies Olga Batalina and Olga Okuneva, as well as members of the Council of Council Galina Karelova and Zinaida Dragunkina. It was planned to consider it at the last meeting of the State Duma at the 2016 autumn session. However, the deputies did not have enough time to fully discuss the document, and the chamber transferred the consideration to the first meeting of the spring session.