The law was passed by the Legislative Chamber on 15 August 2017 and approved by the Senate on 24 August 2017. The law shall enter into force six months after the date of its official publication (9 September 2017).

The purpose of the Law is to regulate relations in the field of protecting children from information that is harmful to their health.

The document was developed to create legal, economic and organizational conditions to protect children from information, which is harmful to their health.

The main goal is to protect children from destructive and traumatic information, which affect their psyche, prevent and restrict spread, and restrict children’s access to information, harming their health.

Among information, banned for dissemination among children, are calls for violence and cruelty, denying family values and promoting debauchery, and forming disrespect for parents and other family members, etc.

Information, banned for dissemination among children, include calling for law violations, containing pornography, about children, etc.

The law said that age restrictions can be set for content, which include cruelty, psychological violations, causing fear, horror and panic among children, calling for suicide, images and description of sexual relations, etc.

The content could be marked with age restriction signs as +0, +7, +12, +16, +18, and banned for children view.