A draft bill would ban selling erotic magazines on national, military and religious holidays. The photo shows the crowd at the Nashestvie open air festival in Tver Region.
Photo: Alexey Kudenko
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Duma to Introduce Quotas on Sex
State Duma deputies presented a bill on Wednesday that says any mass medium with “information about sex” of over 15 percent of the total coverage is erotic. Erotic media are not to be sold in most outlets and their advertising is to be cut dramatically. Media market participants are outraged at the law, saying that it may cover “any standard medium.”
Legislators Alexander Krutov and Nikolay Leonov have come up with amendments to the media law which currently mentions only air time for erotic TV programs and packaging and sale outlets for erotic printed media.
A draft bill would ban selling erotic magazines on national, military and religious holidays and drastically cut places of sale. Erotic TV programs are suggested to be aired from 1 till 4 am, down from 23 pm till 4 am. The amendments say any media “with information about sex more that 15 percent of the total volume” is erotic. The drafters also impose restrictions on erotic media advertising.
The Communications and Culture Agency welcomed the bill, saying “there is an breeding ground for unprincipled media which take advantage of interest to sex.”
Those in the media market called the bill “insane”. “This is clearly a PR move of certain people,” Nikolay Uskov, editor-in-chief of Russia’s GQ magazine, told Kommersant. “The law will be hard to enforce because it is impossible to say where art ends and eroticism begins.”
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of June 28, 2007
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