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.
Contents:
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- RSIA MOV TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- 'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
- WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
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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.
RSIA MOV TO BAN GAY MARRIAGE
Rsia's World Cup volunteers have warned they will hunt down gay England fans and report them to police if they see them kissg public * russia gay marriage *
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. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, A tradnal Rsian Orthodox weddg - nservatism promoted by the Kreml (file pic)Rsian Print Vladimir Put wants marriage to be fed as the unn of a man and woman a revised nstutn, lg out gay is among several nstutnal amendments proposed by Mr Put, which are set to be put to a public vote. The current nstutn dat om 1993, when then Print Boris Yelts was embracg Wtern mocracy and Put's drive agast Wtern liberalism has clud a ntroversial ban on dissematg "gay propaganda" among young Rsians.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
The role of gay soldiers, the lack of legal rights for their partners, and the threat of Rsia imposg anti-L.G.B.T. polici have turned the war to a talyst for change Ukrae. * russia gay marriage *
The ban - nmned by many liberals and the European Court of Human Rights - has been ed to harass gay rights nstutnal reform bill was approved by the Rsian parliament's lower hoe - the State Duma - January, and Mr Put's amendments were troduced time for a send readg next week. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.
'THERE WILL BE DAD AND MUM': PUT L OUT RSIA LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
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Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife. Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. Seven senators submted a draft bill late Tuday to amend Rsia’s Fay Co and legally ban gay marriage and adoptns, cludg, acrdg to s thors, by transgenr people.
Durg his two s power, Put has closely aligned himself wh the Orthodox Church and sought to distance Rsia om Wtern valu cludg liberal attus toward homosexualy and genr fluidy.
In 2013, 20 years after Rsia crimalized homosexualy, Put signed legislatn banng “gay propaganda toward mors” that has been ed to shut down gay pri events and silence activists. Legal experts have exprsed ncern that Rsia’s nstutnal ban on LGBT marriag will enurage anti-gay views.
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
The draft bill banng gay marriage will need to go through three rounds of votg the State Duma and one the upper-hoe Feratn Council before landg on Put’s sk for signg.
WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-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 strangulatn.