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This article considered problems and proposed innovations of Russian legislation related to the increase in the number of suicides among adolescents. The Internet has become an instrument of socialization and there are many criminals who use the Internet to motivate young people to commit suicide. A reliable barrier to such actions is introduced by the adoption of new laws in Russia. This gave law enforcement authorities an opportunity to punish such criminals on the Internet and prevent the spread of calls for suicide.
Key Words: Minors, Suicide, Internet, Law, Russian Federation
1.Introduction
The Russian State and society faced with a serious problem at the turn of 2016 and 2017 is the promotion of suicidal behavior and direct incitement to suicide of the minor, distributed as through the Internet or by sending SMS messages and newsletters through various messengers, such as WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram and etc.
Unfortunately, Russia for several last years is in the top lines of ratings among countries in terms of child suicide because Russia was ranked first among the countries in 2012 that experienced the highest number of suicides among adolescents (1500 committed suicide). Programmes have been implemented in the country to prevent this phenomenon and the number of teenage suicides, according to the system of state statistics, has steadily decreased in subsequent years (URL: http://www.gks.ru).
It seemed that the situation was close to normalization but a sharp increase in the number of suicides among teenagers was recorded in 2016. This happened simultaneously with the detection in the Internet the dramatic increase in the number of so-called "groups of death" the most famous of which was a gaming community called "The Blue whale". The increase in the number of suicides among minors has become a terrible, serious problem for Russian society which demanded immediate solution.
2.Results and Discussion
The attention this issue has attracted after the information and communication network "Internet" was discovered in a large number of pages promoting and instilling in the minds of the psychologically immature people have a desire to commit suicide. We used various social engineering methods through to implementation of suicide in "game" form or as an imitation of literary heroes and characters of the youth subculture.
Unfortunately, absolute numbers of teenage suicide are...