MOSCOW, August 13 (RAPSI) – The Interior Ministry of Russia has drafted a bill imposing criminal punishment for repeated propagation of drugs and psychoactive substances on the Internet, according to the Federal website of draft laws and regulations.

The document also fixes definition of the term of propaganda of drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, drug-containing crops and their parts.

The bill’s authors state that the initiative has been drafted to prevent mass distribution of information explaining how to illegally buy drugs and forming positive attitude to the drug use.