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North Ossetia Wants to Clean up Media
North Ossetia wants to censor the media, banning the use of vulgar words and expressions and scrambling erotic broadcasts. Legislators from that republic have introduced amendments to the fourth article of the law “On the Mass Media” to prevent journalists from “using words and expressions distorting the norms of the modern Russian literary language, state languages of the republics and other languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation.” According to the authors of the bill, such distortion is a common occurrence in the Russian media.
That distortion, the legislators say, is a violation of the Russian Constitution and the law “On the State Language.” The same package of measures contains a ban on erotic radio and television programming unless it is scrambled. Currently, that programming is allowed unscrambled from 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. local time.
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