A bill that prohibits the advertising of Tarot readers was presented to the State Duma

The document proposes to make changes and additions to federal laws No. 149-FZ “on information, information and information protection technologies” and No. E8-FZ “on advertising”. The explanatory note of the bill emphasizes that, from the point of view of the norms of the modern Russian society, the services of a tarotist enter the fiction category, and most citizens of the country consider the divination of the tarot by A rate. be a type of fraud.

In addition, the approval of the bill aims to implement the decree of the President of Russia of November 9, 2022 No. 809 “on the approval of the foundations of the state policy for preservation and strengthening of spiritual and moral values Traditional Russians. ” says the note.

In December 2024, VTSIOM published statistics according to which more than half of the Russians (55%) are in favor of a total prohibition of the Tarot Reading Payments, including 30% that affirmed the need for this measure. At the same time, 83% of citizens believe that tarot letters are “impotent to solve life problems.”

Despite this, in 2024, sales of divination cards, including the Tarot, and several divination guides on Ozon and Wildberries increased by 500 million rubles, up to 1.9 billion rubles. According to the MoneyPlace service, since 2021 the sales of divination cards in Russia have multiplied by 6.7. The sales of books that teach divination and interpretation of letters doubled last year, exceeding 317 thousand copies.