In the coming months will introduce criminal liability for the promotion of drugs on the Internet

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to make changes to legislation that would criminalize the dissemination of information on the acquisition, storage, transportation, manufacture and processing of drugs on the Internet. Putin demanded to prepare a bill on extrajudicial restriction of access to pages on the network containing information about drugs.



On March 25, 2015, the State Duma in the first reading passed a bill providing for up to two years in prison for the propaganda of narcotic or psychotropic substances. The bill proposed to supplement the Criminal Code of Russia with article 228.5:

228.5. Propaganda or advertising of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their precursors, plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances or their precursors, and their parts containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances or their precursors using information and telecommunication networks (including the Internet ") - shall be punished with a fine of up to fifty thousand rubles, or in the amount of the salary or other income of the convicted person for a period of up to six months, or mandatory otami for a period of one hundred eighty to two hundred forty hours, or correctional labor for up to two years, or restraint of liberty for up to two years, or imprisonment for the same period.

According to Ramil Garifullin, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Honored Worker of Culture of Tatarstan, the bill explicitly states that mentioning the name of a drug or its predecessor is considered propaganda, like the image of a substance, information about the methods and methods of its development and use. The prohibition will be referred to the use of narcotic or psychotropic substances for medicinal purposes - for example, in the treatment of cancer. It will be impossible to mention the plants from which narcotic substances are made. Ramil Garifullin writes about a large number of articles on psychochemistry and psychotropic substances on Wikipedia:

Earlier in my articles it was repeatedly noted that Wikipedia, as one of the most important Russian information resources, is polluted not only with useful content, but also with articles that undermine the foundations of state security. Analysis of scientific articles on Wikipedia showed that its participants are abused in writing articles on psychochemistry, psychotropic substances and drugs, while paying little attention to current scientific articles. These articles are written, sometimes, by persons who do not have a special education to write about it. This unhealthy interest of some authors and participants of Wikipedia needs to be investigated!

Vladimir Putin instructed the government before November 1, 2015 to submit proposals for changing the penalties for crimes related to drugs and provided for by Article 228 of the Criminal Code, taking into account their public danger. Until December 15, the Federal Drug Control Service, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Customs Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Migration Service will submit their proposals to counter the organized criminal group that organizes drug smuggling. The government will develop cooperation with the European Union in the fight against drugs, it is possible to establish a Russia-EU working group, reports Rossiisk Gazeta .

Propaganda of drugs is currently punished with fines ranging from four to five thousand rubles under administrative law. Roskomnadzor when addressing Federal Drug Control Service blocks pages on the Internet.
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According to the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation, more than eighteen million Russians have tried drugs. Eighty percent of drug addicts are people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four.