Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses

The Code of Administrative Offenses provides for liability for propaganda, public display of Nazi attributes or symbols, or attributes or symbols of extremist organizations (Article 20.4). The fine for citizens ranges from 10 to 20 minimum wages (184 – 368 rubles) or administrative arrest for up to 15 days. The fine is higher for officials – from 10 to 40 minimum wages (184 - 736 rubles), and for legal entities from 100 to 500 minimum wages (1840 - 9200 rubles).

Deputies of the Supreme Council Galina Antyufeyeva and Gregory Dyachenko drew attention to the fact that the showing of all documentaries and feature films, including military newsreels, as well as book illustrations, paintings, educational and scientific manuals, photographs from museums where Nazi attributes or symbols in the general context of the history of the Great Patriotic War.

Parliamentarians of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens in order to eliminate administrative liability in such cases proposed amending the Code of Administrative Offences. The Code will supplement Article 20.4 with a norm according to which the use of Nazi attributes or symbols, or attributes or symbols of extremist organizations in works of science, literature, art, and media products will not be subject to administrative punishment. Legislation will allow the use of such symbols for educational and educational purposes, provided that Nazism and extremism are condemned and not promoted.

The law-in-draft of the deputies was supported in the course of the meeting of the Committee on Legislation. Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses will be considered in the first reading in the course of one of the plenary meetings of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.