I’ll admit I wanted to ban car alarms/spam/Big Lebowski references just yesterday, but…

From the Moscow Times:

Moscow may soon make finable offenses out of courtyard fireworks, panhandling, pushy proselytizing, and loud music in apartments during the day.
The City Duma on Wednesday will consider legislation to impose fines of 100 rubles to 5,000 rubles for a raft of activities that the bill’s author, Deputy Oleg Bocharov, says are disrupting peace and order in Moscow streets and homes.
The bill is a piecemeal collection of offenses that bug Moscow residents and police, and Bocharov said it is in response to complaints from his constituents….
“If this bill helps soothe one citizen, then it is important,” Bocharov said, dismissing suggestions that police or disgruntled neighbors could misuse the daytime noise ban.