Users of social networks are subject to information that from the New Year Russians will begin to be fined for the use of cesspools. We checked the reliability of such publications.

According to reports published by Internet users, on January 1, 2022, the “Decree of the Federal Service for Environmental Supervision” will come into force that “all homeowners must get rid of cesspools and replace them with modern bathrooms.” The department allegedly explains its decision by the fact that in this way "Russia will be able to reduce the number of emissions into the atmosphere and fulfill the international obligations of the Kyoto Protocol." Judging by these reports, failure to fulfill the resolution, threatens with large fines, however, for the elimination of cesspools in their own areas, citizens can use maternity capital funds or subsequently apply for a tax deduction. Full indignations of the publication about the "new law" appeared in Facebook, Twitter, "VKontakte", Pikabu, at the legal forum 9111.ru and other platforms.

Well, they got to the toilers! From January 1, Russians will ban the use of cesspools
According to the Decree of the Federal Service for Environmental Supervision, from January 1, 2022, all homeowners must get rid of cesspools and replace them with modern bathrooms. pic.twitter.com/lswm3y8ofx
- Nina (@nina25596373) December 5, 2021

Such a department as the Federal Environmental Supervision Service does not exist in Russia. Perhaps the authors of publications have in mind the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision, also known as Rostekhnadzor. On the website of the department failed Find information about the adoption of such a resolution. Unshered Success and search on the “Official Internet Portal of Legal Information”.

The primary source of the news about a strange initiative was a note on the website of the Panorama news agency, published November 4, 2021. It contains all the details that later began to retell users of social networks. An important clarification in the text of the article, which many of them did not mention in their own texts, reads: “All the texts on this site are grotesque parodies for reality and are not real news.”

Panorama is one of the most famous sites in Russia with comic news. Disclaimers under each article, as well as the words “satirical publication” on the logo of the portal, often remain without attention, and fictional news begins to appear in other sources already under the guise of real ones. For example, the publications that the Pope became popular promised for € 200 to all Russians who will celebrate Christmas on December 25, or about accepted In the United States, the decision to recognize the first person in the American space. Dean of the Faculty of World Policy of Moscow State University Andrei Sidorov even Retelling One of the news of the Panorama on the air of the Russia-1 channel.