MOSCOW, November 20 (RAPSI) – Russia’s senator Anton Belyakov wrote on his Facebook page on Monday that he had submitted a bill prohibiting criminal subculture propaganda in media and on the Internet to the State Duma.

Under the bill, the communications watchdog Roskomnadzor would be authorized to block resources popularizing “values” of the criminal world.

Currently, there is a ban on suicide, drugs, and extremism propaganda, as negative and socially dangerous phenomena. However, popularization of criminal pursuits is not officially prohibited in Russia despite the fact that criminal subculture is also dangerous and directly related to extremism, racket and other crimes, the Federation Council member says.

The draft law is aimed to prevent the further spread of this dangerous tendency, according to Belyakov. Amendments are proposed to laws “On mass media” and “On protection of children from information doing harm to their health and development”.