Russia plans to build a unified electronic database of people who have committed sexual violence against minors, Anastasia Udaltsova, a deputy in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, told Ksenia Sobchak’s Telegram channel Krovavaya Barynya (“Bloody Lady”).
The channel’s editors published screenshots of a response from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov to a June request Udaltsova had sent him. The document says the Interior Ministry is already conducting “research and development work” on the registry and plans to launch it in 2027. Udaltsova did not post the letter to her own Telegram channel, but she reposted coverage of it from Sobchak’s channel and two others.
The Telegram channel Baza, which has ties to Russian security services, had already reported on the registry’s creation, citing its own sources. The Russian news outlet Expert published a similar report after speaking with Udaltsova, and its journalists say they, too, have obtained the document Sobchak’s channel cited.
All three sources say the new registry will be called “Rapist-Pedophile,” though Manturov’s letter does not mention that name. Expert reported that the database will be closed, accessible only to Interior Ministry employees. Udaltsova opposes this limitation, saying the registry should be made public.
It remains unclear what criteria will determine who is included in the database: in particular, whether it will cover people whose criminal records have already been expunged.
The idea of creating such a database in Russia has been discussed for at least the past decade. In 2025, Sergei Mironov, chairman of the A Just Russia party, sent the proposal to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, Russia’s federal investigating authority. Mironov argued that creating “open databases of pedophiles is consistent with international practice.”
In July, the Digital Development Ministry published a draft doctrine outlining goals for developing a system to combat internet-based crime. The document said the possibility of creating such a registry should be considered, but it set no earlier than 2029 for implementing any of the proposed mechanisms.
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