President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday that prohibits the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations”, which represents an important tightening of the current law, since it extends the prohibition of “LGBTI propaganda”, which was already applied, to adults. to minors.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships”, pedophilia and gender reassignment in public and in the media, internet, advertising, literature and film.
The new rule introduces fines ranging from 100,000 rubles (1,600 euros) to 10 million rubles (160,500 euros) for violating the legislation, which represents a significant tightening of the current law, since it extends the prohibition to adults to “LGBTI propaganda”, which was already applied to minors.
Putin signs law banning “propaganda of non-traditional relationships”
The law considers LGBTI propaganda to be “the dissemination of information or public actions aimed at the formation of non-traditional sexual attitudes, their attractiveness and distorted ideas of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations” ;.
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This regulation was supported by the media regulator Roskomnadzor, which has already removed or blocked more than 7,200 web pages.
The project has been strongly criticized by associations for the defense of the LGBTI community and organizations for the defense of human rights such as Amnesty International (AI). The latter already pointed out that after the first reading that the amended legislation will increase homophobia with the permission of the Russian state.