This is not the untry’s first move limg LGBT rights and fluence. Rsia has never legalized gay marriage and also has a “gay propaganda” law.
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RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
* russian gay marriage *
Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy s ago, animosy agast gays remas high.
In 2012, the Mosw cy ernment orred that gay pri paras be banned for the next 100 years. Attacks on the gay muny persist.
TOP RSIAN TENNIS PLAYER DARIA KASATKA OUT AS GAY
Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se. Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts. He said he has worked on seven ctody s which judg refed to take away ctody, sayg that sexual orientatn don’t play a role a child’s he is ncerned that the nstutnal chang will enurage anti-gay views.
“Our society really looks up to what the ernment do, so any kds of public actns promotg homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a ll for actn. ”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn. At the end of gay pri month, Rsians voted on a nstutnal amendment that f marriage as solely between a man and a woman.
Rsia has never legalized gay marriage and also has a “gay propaganda” law, which bans any public discsn or support of homosexualy among mors. They said they “affirm the herent digny of each dividual as exprsed the Universal Declaratn of Human Rights and ll upon the ernment of the Rsian Feratn to adhere to s stated mment to protectg the rights of all cizens, cludg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muny. Along wh much of the Wt’s lls to uphold LGBTQ rights, activists are ncerned that the passage of the amendment may promote tolerance and vlence towards homosexuals, which creased after the “gay propaganda” law passed, acrdg to the Human Rights Watch Campaign.