Article 11. Information promoting suicide The Law on Mass Media

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1. Information promoting suicide is understood to mean information disseminated and/or posted in any form that helps to induce an unlimited number of people to commit suicide, as well as information about ways to commit suicide and information about calls to commit suicide.

2. Information contributing to the determination to commit suicide is information containing:

1) indications of suicide as a way to solve the problem;

2) a positive assessment or approval of committing suicide or actions aimed at suicide, or the intentions of a real (imaginary) interlocutor or a third person to commit suicide;

3) arguments that encourage suicide, including statements (judgments) that do not contain direct or explicit motivation, but are capable of inducing a decision to commit suicide, including by giving specific examples that popularize the actions of other people who have already committed suicide, and (or) containing statements (judgments) about the advantages that people who have committed suicide have received, including the idea of suicide as an acceptable, logical and natural act in modern society;

4) condemning and ridiculing a failed suicide attempt, including describing relationships, feelings, and discussing the topic with people who have experienced suicide attempts;

5) announcements of acquaintance with the purpose of committing suicide (attempted suicide), including group and (or) assisted suicide, carried out with someone's help or in someone's presence or under someone's supervision;

6) a survey (voting), a test, and a rating on the choice of a method of committing suicide, including the most painless, reliable, affordable, and aesthetic method of suicide.

3. Information about ways to commit suicide includes:

1) information about one or more ways of committing suicide, including through the use of text, audio or video media to describe (demonstrate) processes, procedures depicting (reproducing) the sequence of actions and (or) possible results (consequences) of committing suicide, means and (or) places for committing suicide;

2) information about the totality of conditions necessary for suicide, including the choice of place, time, method, preparatory actions that must be performed for suicide;

3) other information related to the methods of committing suicide.

4. Information about calls to commit suicide includes:

1) information containing a direct appeal to commit suicide, including through blackmail, requests, agitation, persuasion, demands;

2) other information related to calls for suicide.

5. It is prohibited to disseminate and (or) post information promoting suicide, information about methods and calls to commit suicide.

This Law regulates public relations in the field of mass media, establishes their legal basis and is aimed at ensuring the constitutional right to freedom of speech and creativity.

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