The state Duma has approved in the first reading a ban to call children by numbers and abbreviations
Moscow. March 7. INTERFAX.RU — the state Duma on Tuesday adopted in the first reading the draft law limiting the right of parents to give children names in digital, lettering, numerals, symbols, or any combination of abbreviations of profanity.
The bill, sponsored by Senator Valentina Petrenko, aimed at establishing at the legislative level, the legal balance between the rights of the parents and the child’s right to a name that would not violate its own interests, it is told in accompanying documents.
The bill proposes to establish that the child’s name is given by agreement of the parents and must meet the requirements established by the legislation on acts of civil status.
Under the name of the citizen is understood as a means of individualization, which cannot consist of digital, lettering, numerals, symbols, or any combination of abbreviations, profanity, to indicate the positions, stated in the bill.
The current legislation gives parents full freedom to choose the name of your child.
Organs recording acts of civil status (Registrar) is not entitled to refuse to register the child’s name because of his name, offensiveness, lack of culture, naprasnosti and so forth, stated in the explanatory note to the draft law.
It also provides statistics of the registry offices of the city of Moscow since 1998. Among the most unusual names that got the boys, were as follows: Nicholas-Nikita-Neal, Christards, Dolphin, Jaroslav-Lutobor, Luka-Happiness, Summerset ocean. For the specified period was recorded the following unusual names girls: April, Pauline-Pauline, Princess Danielle, dawn-Zagranica, Alesha-Kaprina, Ocean, Sofia-the Sun.
The author of the bill also recalls the story of a boy with the name BOC RVF 260602 (Biological object of man kind Voronin — frolovs born 26 June 2002), which is not allowed here for the past 10 years. Little BOTCH (as it is called) is still living without documents, as the court sided with the civil registry office of Moscow refused to register the child with this name to protect his interests, as stated in the draft law.
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The Chairman of the Duma Committee on state construction and the legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov has explained that the second reading it is proposed to replace the text of the bill the concept of “profanity”, which is banned in names, the concept of “obscene language”. According to him, the term “obscene language” is already used in legislation, for example in the Code about administrative offenses, and he clearly indicates what words not to use in a person’s name.
It was decided to have a clear list of those punctuation marks that can be used in the name, because sometimes the question arises about the use of the name characters such as a dot or a comma. Amendments will be made, according to Krasheninnikov, in the law on registry of civil status and Family code, and will not be made to the Civil code of the Russian Federation.