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According to BBC now Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning all swearing in films, television broadcasts, theatres and the media.
Wow!
It's no easy to be an artist in Russia, who will be a new USSR and a new kind of The Tsar's empire at the same time.
Putin has already done it, he has combined the disadvantages of both, by created for one new totalitarian state construction, still yet half-totalitarian.
Sure, the law harks back to the conservatism of the Soviet period, when the Communist Party required artists and writers to avoid so called decadent, in other words Western fashions, and all should be to stick to `traditional values´. One of them is the Church, part core of Russian corruption.
A leading pro-Putin film director and now MP, Stanislav Govorukhin, was one of the new law's architects, BBC tells.
Traders who fail to give consumers warnings about swearing in videos or other audiovisual products will risk having their licences withdrawn.
But it is not clear yet, whether the ban on swearing in the media will also extend to Russian users of international social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
Also it is not yet clear how Russian censors will deal with swearing in imported films.
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