The state Duma in the first reading adopted a bill prohibiting the registration of children under the names contains numbers, symbols, abbreviations, and profanity, RIA Novosti reported.
The author of the initiative Senator Valentina Petrenko. As stated in the explanatory note, the legislation contains no rules requiring parents to give children names that do not violate their rights. “The Registrar may not refuse registration on the child’s behalf because of his name, offensiveness, lack of culture, naprasnosti. Employees of the registry office can not in any way affect the parents ‘choice”, — the document says.
The Duma Committee on family, women and children has approved a draft law establishing the requirements for names for children, in April 2016.
In 2002, in the family of Moscow artists born child, whom they decided to name BOC RVF 260602 (an abbreviation of “Biological object of man kind Voronin — frolovs born 26 June 2002”). The Registrar refused to issue the documents with the same name, explaining the protection of the rights of the child. The court agreed with these arguments. The boy’s parents appealed to the Strasbourg court, but the proceedings were refused. Official Russian documents of Boccia is not so far, only birth certificate issued by the organization “World Government of World Citizens” on the basis of which the boy gave to the school.
In 2014, the Perm region has offered to compile a list of banned names. The occasion was the birth of a child named Lucifer Konstantinovich Menshikov. His younger brother was given the name Waldemar.