MOSCOW, November 15 - RAPSI. The upper house will submit to Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, a bill on the inadmissibility of promoting Nazism and glorifying nationalistic crimes by the year's end, Izvestia daily reports on Thursday.

The document will ban the use of nazi and similar symbols, signs, greetings, gestures and other attributes associated with the Third Reich, Konstantin Dobrynin, the document's sponsor, told Izvestia. Senators Boris Shpigel and Alexander Savenkov are also working on the bill.

These crimes will be punishable by a fine of at least 300,000 rubles ($9,462), compulsory community service and imprisonment for up to two years. State and non-governmental commissions will be set up to hold examinations into these cases, which will work independently from one another. Changes are being prepared to be submitted to the Criminal Code, where all liability measures will be set forth.

Senators have described in detail the meanings of "Nazism" and "Nazi crimes," introduce definitions of such actions as "promoting Nazism" and "glorifying Nazi crimes," and clarifying what Nazi symbols are.

Additionally, senators have proposed establishing an anti-Nazism body of executive power.

The law will not concern scientific or artistic activity or literature, or military burial places and their construction and maintenance if rituals are not conducted around them, Dobrynin said.

The State Duma has supported the project and considers it timely, State Duma Deputy on the Nationalities Committee Mikhail Markelov said.