1 What happened? Deputies of the State Duma Nina Ostanina, Andrei Svintsov and Alexei Kornienko introduced a bill “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation, aimed at the ban on advertising of esoteric and energy services, spiritual practices and the development of mechanisms for the identification and blocking of resources containing proposals for the provision of such services.” Entities, according to their idea, must be made to the laws. “On Advertising” and “On Information, Information Technologies and about the Protection of Information” .2 Deputies simply propose to ban all esotericism? No, the bill is a little more complicated. Deputies have compiled a list of 36 specific “professions”. You could never hear about many. Having studied the attached definitions, you will find out how, according to deputies, it differs from, and – from. Esoteric, spiritual and energy services, which only persons from this particular list, should be. And sites and Internet resources with such advertising can be blocked out of court at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office. 3 This list is exhaustive? On our amateurish look-no. There is not enough, for example, psychics, clairvoyants, sorcerers and sorcerers. And from all kinds of predictors of the future in the list are clearly mentioned only. But maybe the deputies consider their activities a derivative of the activities of persons from their list. Therefore, they prohibited the advertising of other esoteric, spiritual and energy “services that can be combinations and/or derivatives of concepts.” In this case, it should be noted that the deputies have provided a number of exceptions in their list. For the owners of higher medical and higher psychological education, as well as for representatives of religious organizations. 4 is allowed to be magicians and witches? Religious figures are prohibited, but they can engage in the same activities as either. And freely advertise it. For psychologists, a list of permitted esoteric, spiritual and energy services is much wider. They can be,, and the development of a higher medical education can be legally advertised as .6 This is the bill to accept? We do not know. Firstly, the initiators of the bill are deputies from the Communist Party and LDPR. Among them there are no representatives of the ruling United Russia. And it is still unknown whether they will support these amendments. In secondly, over the past twenty years there have been several similar initiatives. But all of them failed. In 2007, deputies Vladimir Medinsky and Svyatoslav Nasashevsky proposed to prohibit the advertising of “occult-mystical services (healership, witchcraft, shamanism, magic and other similar methods)”, making an exception for healers. The bill was adopted in the first reading at the end of 2007. But when examined in the second reading in 2010, it was rejected. Seeed initiatives were put forward in 2010 and 2014. They were accepted in the first reading, but then rejected. In February 2025, one of the authors of the current initiative proposed aimed to ban only tarologists. The bill has not yet been considered in the first reading, but the Government of the Russian Federation has already called it excessive in its review: “The advertiser has already entrusted with responsibility for the dissemination of inaccurate information. This requirement applies to any inaccurate information, including information about the services of a tarolog. “7 This esoteric lobby tried? Guys, should not open this topic. You are young, playful, everything is easy for you … Okay, in fact, we just don’t know. But the current bill, in any case, looks more worked out than its predecessors. Denis Dmitriev (Tagstotranslate) News
Witches, magicians, guru and even chakra-therapists can lose their right to advertise their services to Russians. Why did they take care of esotericism in the State Duma? We study the guide for spiritual practices from deputies
