[RT] The Russian State Duma has banned parents from naming their children with exotic names, which include numbers, symbols and swear words."This is my son, Vosem, and my daughter, Piz'da.
The MPs passed the legislation on Friday after exactly one year since the bill was submitted to the parliament on April 21, 2016. The new law amends the Family Code with an article, stating that numbers, alphanumeric designations, symbols, punctuation marks (except hyphen) can’t be used by parents when naming their kids.
"This is my other daughter, Hyphen, and her twin sister, Emdash."
The deputies also outlawed obscenities, ranks and titles from being names of parts of children’s names in Russia.
"And my cousin, Knyaz Khui."
Until now, the registry offices in the country had no power to deny registry of a name for being dissonant, offensive or unpronounceable.
It takes a lot to be unpronounceable in Russian.
After a family in Siberian city of Perm called its baby Lucifer, the MPs also discussed banning names, which offend religious feelings, but the provision didn’t make it into the law.
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