President Vladimir Putin had previously signed a law providing for the creation of a public register of people who are in arrears with their payments.
Russian citizens who do not pay their alimony should be marked as such on dating websites, State Duma Deputy Chairman Vladislav Davankov suggested in a proposal submitted to the Ministry of Digital Development.
The proposed measure comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law earlier this year that provides for the creation of a special register of alimony debtors. The authors of the bill explained that this was necessary to create an “effective legal mechanism” that would “increase the effectiveness of legal influence” on alimony evaders.
According to Davankov, additional measures are needed to further increase the pressure on debtors to pay alimony. He pointed out that the volume of alimony debts continues to exceed the volume of actual payments by several times.
“One of the most effective measures to speed up the payment of maintenance by debtors could be the introduction of mandatory labeling of their pages on dating sites,” the MP's appeal states.
Davankov added that the introduction of this measure would also protect other users of dating sites from making unwanted acquaintances with persons who deliberately evade paying such alimony.
“Owners of dating sites and services will be able to get information about such debtors from the public register of alimony debtors, which will appear in May 2025. Taking into account the development of facial recognition technologies in photographs, such a mark can be automatically added to the alimony debtor's profile,” Davankov added.
When presenting the draft law on the establishment of a debtors' register in May, Deputy Justice Minister Andrei Loginov stated that around 133,000 people were currently at risk of appearing in the database.
He added that the register would put additional moral pressure on debtors due to their “unworthy behaviour” and specified that only those who were already on a wanted list or who faced administrative fees for “chronic non-payment” would be included in the database.
(RT.com)
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