Moscow – By the mid autumn Russian Ministry for Culture and Mass Communications plans to draft a bill restricting erotic and porn content availability, Deputy Minister Pavel Pozhigaylo said.

‘The bill is not ready yet. I think in October or November we’ll be ready to propose it as our own initiative or if we manage to agree over the conception, to include it into the plan of Russian government legislative activities for 2008,’ he told Interfax in his interview.

According the bill, no erotic and porn content may be manufactured in buildings used by a child-related, educational, healthcare or similar institution; no porn may include images on minors, state symbols, or public places.

All content of this sort may be offered only in specialized shops.

It is also planned to restrict availability of porn content in info networks including the Internet.

According to the bill, all circulation or erotic and porn content and organizing of erotic shows will have to be licensed.