The Chechen parliament has submitted to the State Duma a draft amendment to the law "On the Mass Media," providing for a ban on the publication of information about the nationality and religion of people involved in crimes.

On November 11, the Chechen parliament decided to submit to the State Duma a draft of amendments to the fourth article of the federal law "On the Mass Media" ("Inadmissibility of Abusing Freedom of the Mass Media") and to the Code of Administrative Offenses. The deputies proposed a ban on the sharing of nationality and religion details of potential criminals in the media and on the Internet and to bring administrative responsibility for violation of this prohibition. Speaker of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, explained the initiative by "the need to preserve interethnic and interfaith harmony and peace."

The Chechen parliament began preparing a bill after Ramzan Kadyrov commented on an incident in New Moscow where a group of young men beat up two men. “The secret services must find the provocateurs who mistakenly named the participants in the attack as natives of the North Caucasus,” Kadyrov said. State Duma deputy from Dagestan Sultan Khamzaev also proposed introducing a legislative ban on indicating in the media the nationality of suspects and convicts.

The bill was included in the State Duma database this morning, it was registered and sent to the Chairman of the State Duma, according to the website for ensuring legislative activity of the State Automated System "Lawmaking."

"It is prohibited to disseminate in the media, as well as in information and telecommunication networks, information about the nationality, religion and belonging to the peoples of the Russian Federation of persons involved in the commission of crimes," the text of the bill says.

The explanatory note to the bill specifies that the dissemination of such information "is regarded as an insult to the national and religious feelings of honest, respectable citizens, true believers who have nothing to do with criminal activity."

“In the media and social networks, provocative materials are increasingly posted that contain a negative emotional assessment and form a negative attitude towards a certain ethnic, confessional group or individuals as members of this group, incite to restricting their rights or to violent actions against them. Such information, as a rule, generates tension in society, intolerance of the coexistence of people of different nationalities and religions, since it creates a fertile ground for conflicts," the explanatory note says.

Let us remind you that on November 5, a group of young people in New Moscow beat up two men, one of whom was carrying a young child. The fact that, according to preliminary data, the attackers are from the Caucasus, was reported by TASS on November 5 at 11:22 am Moscow time, citing a law enforcement source. At 11.49 Moscow time on November 5, RIA Novosti wrote, citing a message from the 360 ​​TV channel, that the attack was carried out by four young people of Caucasian ethnicity. The attackers were detained, they were natives of Azerbaijan, three of whom received Russian citizenship nine years ago. On November 7, they were arrested, the case against them was re-qualified from hooliganism to attempted murder.