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• RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
• RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS
• ‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE
• RSIAN PARLIAMENT MOV TO EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• RSIA MAY EXPAND ITS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN, DEEMG IT 'INSUFFICIENT'
• LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
• RSIA PASS ANTI-GAY-LAW
• RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
• RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• EUROPEAN COURT BLASTS RSIA 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW
• THE FEAR OF BEG GAY RSIA
• RSIAN GAY PROPAGANDA LAWAFTER RSIA·FOLLOW6 M READ·APR 11--1LISTENSHAREHOW THE RSIAN REGIME FIGHTS FOR TRADNAL VALU“LET’S ANSWER SOME VERY SIMPLE QUTNS FOR OURSELV. I NOW WANT TO RETURN TO WHAT I SAID, I WANT TO ADDRS ALL THE CIZENS OF THE UNTRY — NOT ONLY TO THOSE LLEAGU WHO ARE THE HALL — TO ALL THE CIZENS OF RSIA: DO WE WANT TO HAVE, HERE, OUR UNTRY, RSIA, PARENT NUMBER ONE, NUMBER TWO, NUMBER THREE STEAD OF MOM AND DAD — HAVE THEY GONE MA OUT THERE? DO WE REALLY WANT PERVERSNS THAT LEAD TO GRADATN AND EXTCTN TO BE IMPOSED ON CHILDREN OUR SCHOOLS OM THE PRIMARY GRAS? TO BE DMMED TO THEM THAT THERE ARE VAR SUPPOSED GENRS BIS WOMEN AND MEN, AND TO BE OFFERED A SEX CHANGE OPERATN? DO WE WANT ALL THIS FOR OUR UNTRY AND OUR CHILDREN? FOR , ALL THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, WE HAVE A DIFFERENT FUTURE, OUR OWN FUTURE.”VLADIMIR PUT ON ANNEXATN OF DOSK AND LUHANSK, 2020WHAT IS ?THE RSIAN FERAL LAW “FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTG CHILDREN OM INFORMATN ADVOTG A DENIAL OF TRADNAL FAY VALU”, ALSO KNOWN AS THE “GAY PROPAGANDA” OR “ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA” LAW, WAS SIGNED BY RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT ON 30TH JUNE 2013 AND ME TO EFFECT ON 29TH JUNE 2013. THE LAW AIMS TO PROHIB THE DISSEMATN OF RMATN THAT IS NSIRED TO PROMOTE NON-TRADNAL SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT SOLELY, AMONG MORS.IN 2022, CHANG REGARDG THE BAN ON GAY PROPAGANDA WERE MA TO FIVE LAWS: ON RMATN, ON THE MEDIA, ABOUT THE STATE SUPPORT OF CEMATOGRAPHY, ON ADVERTISG, AND ON THE PROTECTN OF CHILDREN OM RMATN THAT IS HARMFUL TO THEIR HEALTH AND VELOPMENT. THEREFORE, IALLY AIMED AT MORS, THE LAW WAS EXPAND TOWARDS ALL AG. ALL THE ABOVE LAWS AND AMENDMENTS ARE REFERRED TO MEDIA AS GAY PROPAGANDA LAW OR ANTI-GAY LAW, WHICH NOW FACT AFFECTS NOT JT CHILDREN, BUT ALMOST ANY RSIAN CIZEN.THE NEW AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW PROHIB PROPAGANDA OF GENR TRANSN, “NON-TRADNAL SEXUAL RELATNS AND/OR PREFERENC” ALONG WH PAEDOPHILIA, SUGGTG THEY ARE OF THE SIAR NATURE.THE LAW AIMS TO PREVENT SPREADG “THE DISTORTED IAS ABOUT THE EQUAL SOCIAL VALUE OF TRADNAL AND NON-TRADNAL [LGBT] SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS”. IT IMPOS F ON DIVIDUALS, ANISATNS, AND BS FOUND GUILTY OF VLATG THE LAW, WH HIGHER F FOR ANISATNS AND BS.ADDNALLY, JULY 2020, RSIA APPROVED A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT FG MARRIAGE AS A UNN BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, EFFECTIVELY BANNG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AT THE NSTUTNAL LEVEL.EFFECTS AND APPLITNSF: UP TO 400,000 BL ($6,370) FOR “LGBT PROPAGANDA” AND UP TO 200,000 BL ($3,185) FOR “MONSTRATNS OF LGBT AND RMATN THAT ENURAG A CHANGE OF GENR AMONG TEENAGERS.” THE F RISE TO UP TO 5 LN BL ($80,000) AND 4 LN BL ($64,000) RPECTIVELY FOR LEGAL ENTI.PROMOTN OF DISCRIMATN: THE LAW RERC DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS BY PROMOTG A NARROW AND DISCRIMATORY VIEW OF GENR AND SEXUALY. IT PERPETUAT HARMFUL STEREOTYP, STIGMATIS LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS, AND NTRIBUT TO A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT WHERE DISCRIMATN, HARASSMENT, AND VLENCE AGAST THEM ARE NORMALISED.RTRICTNS ON EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND ASSEMBLY: THE LAW RTRICTS EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND ASSEMBLY FOR LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS AND THEIR ALLI, MAKG DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO ADVOTE FOR THEIR RIGHTS, ACCS RMATN, AND EXPRS THEMSELV. IT HRS LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS OM ANISG PUBLIC EVENTS OR MONSTRATNS, SHARG RMATN ABOUT LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, OR EXPRSG THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY OPENLY.VLATN OF PRIVACY AND TONOMY: THE LAW VAS THE PRIVACY AND TONOMY OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS BY CRIMALISG THE EXPRSN OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY, PARTICULARLY THE PRENCE OF MORS. IT N LEAD TO TSIVE VTIGATNS, ARRTS, F, AND EVEN IMPRISONMENT FOR SIMPLY BEG OPEN ABOUT ONE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY.IMPACT ON HEALTHRE: THE LAW N HR LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS’ ACCS TO HEALTHRE, CLUDG CRIL SERVIC SUCH AS HIV PREVENTN AND TREATMENT, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT, AND GENR-AFFIRMG MEDIL RE. IT NTRIBUT TO A CULTURE OF DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS HEALTHRE SETTGS AND MAY DISURAGE THEM OM SEEKG APPROPRIATE RE DUE TO FEAR OF DISCRIMATN OR LEGAL REPERCSNS.MARGALISATN AND EXCLN: THE LAW FURTHER MARGALISED LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS RSIA, CREATG A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY FACE DISCRIMATN, HARASSMENT, AND VLENCE THEIR DAILY LIV. IT RULTS SOCIAL EXCLN, LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT, HOG DISCRIMATN, AND LIMED ACCS TO PUBLIC SERVIC, FURTHER IMPEDG THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS AND WELL-BEG.CHECHNYAGAY RIGHTS CHECHNYA HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY NCERNG. CHECHEN THORI HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO RRY OUT SYSTEMIC AND BTAL PERSECUTN OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS, CLUDG ARBRARY ARRTS, TORTURE, AND EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLGS. THE ACTNS HAVE BEEN WILY NMNED BY TERNATNAL HUMAN RIGHTS ANISATNS, BUT THE RSIAN ERNMENT HAS BEEN CRICISED FOR NOT TAKG EFFECTIVE MEASUR TO ADDRS THE SUATN.RSIA: NEW ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN CHECHNYAPOLICE CHECHNYA HAVE RRIED OUT A NEW ROUND OF UNLAWFUL TENTNS, BEATGS, AND HUIATN OF MEN THEY PRUME…CASTHE IMPLEMENTATN AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW HAVE LED TO VAR URT S AND PERSECUTN OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS AND ANISATNS RSIA. SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPL OF URT S RELATED TO THE GAY PROPAGANDA LAW CLU:NIKOLAY BAYEV: IN 2013, NIKOLAY BAYEV AND SEVERAL OTHER ACTIVISTS WERE FED FOR ANISG A PUBLIC EVENT SUPPORT OF LGBTQ+ RIGHTS. THEY CHALLENGED THE LAW THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ECHR), ARGUG THAT VLATED THEIR RIGHTS TO EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND DISCRIMATN. IN 2017, THE ECHR LED THAT THE LAW WAS DISCRIMATORY AND VLATED THEIR RIGHTS UNR THE EUROPEAN CONVENTN ON HUMAN RIGHTS. YET, THE LAW HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED.MAKSIM PANKRATOV: IN 2014, MAKSIM PANKRATOV, A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST, WAS FED FOR POSTG PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX UPL WH THEIR CHILDREN ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE THAT HE MANAGED. HE CHALLENGED THE LAW THE ECHR, ARGUG THAT VLATED HIS RIGHTS TO EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND DISCRIMATN. IN 2018, THE ECHR LED THAT THE LAW WAS DISCRIMATORY AND VLATED HIS RIGHTS UNR THE EUROPEAN CONVENTN ON HUMAN RIGHTS.YELENA GRIGORYEVA: YELENA GRIGORYEVA, A PROMENT LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST RSIA, WAS BTALLY MURRED JULY 2019 ST. PETERSBURG. SHE HAD BEEN RECEIVG ATH THREATS FOR HER ACTIVISM AND HAD REPORTED THEM TO THE POLICE PRR TO HER MURR, BUT NO ACTN WAS TAKEN TO PROTECT HER.MAXIM LAPUNOV: IN 2017, MAXIM LAPUNOV BEME THE FIRST PERSON TO PUBLICLY E FORWARD AND REPORT BEG TAED AND TORTURED CHECHNYA BEE OF HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. HIS SE SHED LIGHT ON THE WISPREAD ANTI-LGBTQ+ PERSECUTN CHECHNYA AND THE FAILURE OF RSIAN THORI TO ADDRS THE ISSUE.“GAY PURGE” CHECHNYA: IN 2017, REPORTS EMERGED OF A STATE-SPONSORED MPAIGN OF VLENCE AND PERSECUTN AGAST LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS CHECHNYA. MANY DIVIDUALS WERE ARBRARILY TAED, TORTURED, AND EVEN KILLED BEE OF THEIR REAL OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATN. DPE TERNATNAL NMNATN, THE RSIAN ERNMENT HAS FAILED TO HOLD THOSE RPONSIBLE ACUNTABLE.YOU N ALSO READ SOME TERVIEWS OF THE REAL PEOPLE, AFFECTED BY THIS LAW:NIKOLAI’S STORYI WILL ALSO HAVE TO CENSOR SERGEY TROSH: "I APOLOGISE THAT WE ARE TIMIDATED.""WE'RE ALL UNR THE HOOD. YOU WALK DOWN THE STREET, THERE ARE MERAS AT EVERY STEP, YOU N'T HI. THERE ARE REALLY…VLADIMIR KOMOV: "AN ULTRA-RIGHT-WG REGIME AWAS RSIA."THE THORI NEED TO CHOOSE A CERTA ENEMY. AN ENEMY WHO IS ALWAYS AROUND YOU. WHO HAS SIGHTS, OH MY GOD, ON YOUR…SOCIETY

RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

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. Rsia’s parliament has passed the third and fal readg of a law banng “LGBT propaganda” among all adults, as Mosw ramps up s nservative ph at home amid the war Ukrae that passed the ne-month mark on bill crimalis any act regard as an attempt to promote what Rsia lls “non-tradnal sexual relatns” – film, onle, advertisg or public – and expands on a notor 2013 law that banned “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns” among mors and was ed to ta gay rights the new law, dividuals n be fed up to 400, 000 roubl (£5, 400) and anisatns 5m roubl (£68, 500) for “propagandisg nontradnal sexual relatns”, while foreigners uld face up to 15 days’ arrt and expulsn om rights groups and LGBTQ+ activists say the extensn of the law means any act or public mentn of same-sex relatnships is functnally beg Rsian print, Vladimir Put, is expected to sign the bill the g the start of the war Ukrae, the Kreml has lnched a h effort to promote “tradnal valu”, wh the Rsian lear makg anti-gay rhetoric one of the rnerston of his polil a recent speech, Put acced the wt of “movg towards open satanism”, cg the promotn of gay and transgenr rights Europe as an example. ”Kochetkov said the bill was also an attempt by the Kreml to look for ternal enemi and distract attentn om battlefield past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnHuman rights crics fear the law will be ed to close down pennt film and book ftivals, makg the topic of gay sexual orientatn sentially taboo Rsia.

Kochetkov’s LGBT Network, wh a number of other human rights groups, has also received the “foreign agent” label, a Soviet-era tag signed to target groups the thori say receive “foreign fundg” and engage “polil activy” while the Rsian ernment has expand s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, recent pollg has dited parts of Rsian society are beg more tolerant towards the gay muny, wh a 2019 poll showg that 68% of younger Rsians view the LGBTQ+ muny as “normal” July, Daria Kasatka, Rsia’s hight-ranked female tennis player, me out as gay, a move appld by fellow athlet and parts of the Rsian public. MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Rters) - Rsia's parliament approved on Thursday a bill that wins a prohibn of "LGBT propaganda" and rtricts the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur, makg any exprsn of an LGBT liftyle almost the new law, which still needs the approval of the upper hoe of parliament and Print Vladimir Put, any actn or rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy - whether public, onle, or films, books or advertisg - uld cur a heavy fe. 'HYBRID WARFARE'"LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare and this hybrid warfare we mt protect our valu, our society and our children, " Alexanr Khste, one of the bill's archects, said last experts said the vaguens of the bill's language giv room for law enforcers to terpret them as broadly as they wish, leavg members of the LGBT muny a state of even greater take part the LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) muny rally "VIII St.

REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File PhotoKseniya Mikhailova of the LGBT support group Vykhod ("Comg Out") said adults-only gay bars or clubs would probably still be allowed to functn, although perhaps not to advertise, but that same-sex kissg public might be taken as an she said same-sex upl would beg to fear that their children might be taken om them on the grounds that they were havg an LGBT liftyle monstrated to law stipulat f of up to 400, 000 roubl ($6, 600) for dividuals and up to 5 ln roubl ($82, 100) for legal enti.

RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW

LONDON, July 11 (Rters) - Rsian lawmakers have proposed extendg a ban on the promotn of "non-tradnal" sexual relatnships to mors to clu adults as well, a senr legislator said on 's existg "gay propaganda" law, passed 2013, has been ed to stop gay pri march and ta gay rights activists. Authori say they are fendg moraly the face of what they argue are un-Rsian liberal valu promoted by the Wt, but human rights activists say the law has been broadly applied to timidate Rsia's LGBT the proposed chang, any event or act regard as an attempt to promote homosexualy uld cur a fe. Multiple discrimatory laws have been passed sce, startg wh 2013 legislatn rtrictg LGBTQ+ rights known as the "gay propaganda" law, which banned any public endorsement of "nontradnal sexual relatns" among the vasn of Ukrae last year, Rsian thori ratcheted up their rhetoric, methodilly weedg out anythg they emed a "gradg Wtern fluence, " cludg rights groups that advoted anythg om helpg domtic abe victims to prervg rerds of Soviet 2022, the origal law targetg "gay propaganda" was expand to ver adults, outlawg any posive or even ntral reprentatn of LGBTQ+ people the public sphere, movi, lerature or media, forcg the already rare number of LGBTQ+-iendly spac to executive director of the Inpennt Psychiatric Associatn of Rsia, Lyubov Vogradova, lled the law "misanthropic" ments to the Rsian newspaper Kommersant late June.

Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch. Dec 5 (Rters) - Rsian Print Vladimir Put on Monday signed a law expandg Rsia's rtrictns on the promotn of what lls "LGBT propaganda", effectively outlawg any public exprsn of LGBT behavur or liftyle the new law, which wins Rsia's terpretatn of what qualifi as "LGBT propaganda", any actn or the spreadg of any rmatn that is nsired an attempt to promote homosexualy public, onle, or films, books or advertisg, uld cur a heavy law expands Rsia's prev law agast LGBT propaganda that had banned the "monstratn" of LGBT behavur to as the Kreml exerts creased prsure on mory groups and opponents of Put at home, quashg pennt media groups and further stiflg ee speech as Mosw ramps up a -long mpaign to promote what says are "tradnal" valu. The measur clu g private acunts on social media, havg accs to a work of tsted people, sendg their son to a private krgarten where the fact a kid has two moms is ls likely to spark a homophobic reactn, and g a private hospal where they n ls risk of a doctor llg child protectn thori to make quiri about their fay set-up, they said.

RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW TO ALL ADULTS

Sce the first law on “gay propaganda” passed 2013, Rsia has seen repeated crackdowns on the gay muny, most notably 2017 and aga 2019 the southern regn of Chechnya, where activists reported dozens of men and women were taed and some tortured and killed for their sexual orientatn, and no proper vtigatn followed. “This is not only an anti-gay law, this is also explicly an anti-trans law, ” said Vanya Solovey, an advocy and program officer for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the trans rights group Transgenr Europe, referencg the part of the package that forbids the promotn of rmatn that uld e people to want to change their genr assigned at birth.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

In one episo of the highly-acclaimed HBO seri The Whe Lot, a Rsian streamg service changed the word "gay" to "man", eded a towel onto one male character's bare backsi and leted a gay sex scene, jt days after the law was ptn, The book Shattered, about the romance between two men, has been heavily redacted RsiaBooks, too, are beg censored. By The Numbers18% of Rsians believe gays and lbians should be elimated om society80% of Orthodox Christians support the Church's posn on refg to perform same-sex marriag11% of Rsians agree that same-sex marriage should be legal51% of Rsians would not want a homosexual neighbor16% of Rsians believe homosexuals should be isolated om society5% believe homosexuals should be physilly stroyed38% of Rsians would not want a homosexual neighborHistoryHomosexual activy Rsia? Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

RSIA PROPOS EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

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. Rearchers said the figur are an unrtimate as many hate crim are not reported, vtigated or ‘gay propaganda’ law, which has been ed to stop gay pri march and to ta gay rights activists, is seen by many as a move by Print Vladimir Put to crack down on dissent and draw closer to the Rsian Orthodox was ranked Europe’s send least LGBT-iendly natn 2016 by ILGA-Europe, a work of European LGBT. Rsia's print, Vladimir Put, has signed to law a measure that stigmatis gay people and bans givg children any rmatn about lower hoe of Rsia's parliament unanimoly passed the Kreml-backed bill on 11 June and the upper hoe approved last Kreml announced on Sunday that Put had signed the legislatn to ban on "propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns" is part of an effort to promote tradnal Rsian valu over wtern liberalism, which the Kreml and the Rsian orthodox church see as rptg Rsian youth and ntributg to the protts agast Put's f n now be imposed on those who provi rmatn about the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny to mors or hold gay pri ralli.

Rsia's parliament has unanimoly passed a feral law banng gay "propaganda" amid a Kreml ph to enshre eply nservative valu that crics say has already led to a sharp crease anti-gay law passed 436-0 on Tuday, wh jt one puty abstag om votg on the bill, which bans the spreadg of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns" among law effect mak illegal to equate straight and gay relatnships, as well as the distributn of material on gay rights. Mut after passg the anti-gay legislatn, the Duma also approved a new law allowg jail sentenc of up to three years for "offendg relig feelgs", an iative lnched the wake of the trial agast the anti-Kreml punk band Psy two laws were wily cricised by Rsia's margalised liberal and human rights muni and e amid a wir crackdown agast pennt civil activy the untry.

‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE

Put, who often mak a show of his fah, has creasgly lled upon the church to fill his own iologil vacuum followg a ntted printial electn last year, acpanied by unprecented protts agast se agast Psy Rt – which three members were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by relig hatred" after performg an anti-Put anthem si a Mosw church – was wily seen as the lnch of an ultra-nservative 's anti-gay law, whose text was softened to remove explic referrals to "homosexual propaganda", troduc f of up to 100, 000 roubl (£1, 975) for dividuals who have ed the media or ter to promote "non-tradnal relatns". Print Barack Obama and Brish Prime Mister David Cameron have risted such lls, they and other high-profile figur and stutns have cricized what appears to be Mosw's creasg anti-gay Tuday, FIFA, the feratn erng world soccer petn, requted "clarifitn and more tails" om the Rsian ernment ncerng the law, passed July wh vol support om Rsian Print Vladimir to the host the World Cup 2018, Rsia had recently received a siar requt om the Internatnal Olympic Commtee ncerng the 2014 Sochi Wter Gam after Rsian sports mister Valy Mutko said that the new law would be enforced durg the homosexual relatns have been legal Rsia sce 1993, the new law has been assailed by crics as the latt and most ser attempt by the thori to crimalize and stigmatize Rsia's gay hostile toward gay rights movements and to homosexualy more broadly, the Rsian public overwhelmgly supports the new law, acrdg to public opn polls.

Dpe posive recent velopments for LGBT people the Uned Stat and other parts of the world, nsensual same-sex relatnships rema a crime at least 76 untri, acrdg to a Uned Natns report released are six natns that have recently adopted or have pecially harsh anti-gay laws:Cameroon"Homosexual nduct is crimalized 38 stat Ai, and many, laws are beg stricter, " said Boris Dtrich, advocy director of the LGBT rights program of Human Rights Watch. "While the bill clus such headle-grabbg provisns as the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexual nduct, " the spe of the proposed law is what has many gay activists most worried, said Human Rights Watch's clse the legislatn stat that anyone, cludg fay members of LGBT people, n be prosecuted for not notifyg thori wh 24 hours if they know someone who is gay, wh sentenc of up to three years prison.

RSIAN PARLIAMENT MOV TO EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW

State Department stated, though, that no one Bundi had been arrted or prosecuted unr the anti-gay law that year, feedg the spicns of the print's crics that the move was a polil some of the more vic crackdowns on LGBT muni are takg place sub-Saharan Ai's poort untri is not a cince, said the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn's Jsi Stern, sce the attentn they generate n sometim provi a eful distractn om other prsg prri. Image source, AFPImage ptn, Gay rights activists marched agast the law St Petersburg 2013Rsia's "gay propaganda" law is discrimatory and enurag homophobia, the European Court of Human Rights has Strasbourg judg said Rsia had discrimated agast three gay rights activists who opposed the law.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

It was adopted 2013, banng promotn of homosexualy among people unr law "rerced stigma and prejudice and enuraged homophobia", the lg rights groups nmned the the law, private dividuals emed to be promotg "homosexual behavur among mors" face f of up to 5, 000 roubl (£67; $85), while officials risk payg 10 tim that amount. Image source, AFPImage ptn, One of the gay ligants, Nikolai Alexeyev, has been arrted repeatedlyMP Valy Milonov, of the lg Uned Rsia party, who troduced the origal bill to the St Petersburg parliament and which formed the basis of the feral law, told BBC Rsian that the urt's cisn was "anti-natnal". "It is absolutely harmful, and those who set up this cisn are enemi of Europe, " he three activists had been found guilty for prottg agast the law 2009-2012 - outsi a sendary school Ryazan, a children's library Archangel and an admistrative buildg St on gay rights RsiaThe urt rejected the Rsian ernment's claim that such a law was need to protect moraly.

Such laws, the judg said, "embodied a predisposed bias on the part of a heterosexual majory agast a homosexual mory" orred Rsia to pay each of the activists damag of between €8, 000 (£7, 000; $8, 900) and €20, of the three, Nikolai Alexeyev, hailed the lg as a "total victory", the BBC's Sarah Rasford reports om had picketed a children's library, holdg a sign clarg that gay people uld also be great - and listg the Rsian poser Pyotr Tchaikovsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenste as on this story. Her sister Alyona will barely talk to her, while her mother is ntually dissolvg to floods of 's troubled but touchg progrs towards her long-awaed goal is the central thread TransRealy, a 15-part documentary seri about the liv of a group of young, transgenr and gay is perhaps surprisg about TransRealy is that was ma by, the Kreml's flagship ternatnal TV channel, shown 2015, also featur Veronika, who is af and tak part ternatnal transgenr bety ntts, a lbian rap sger lled Valeria, and Dmry and Alisa, who look and drs like intil tw sisters, but are actually man and ptn, Rsia's neighbours take actn agast Kreml mediaImage source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Rsian LGBT activists mpaign agast ntroversial gay propaganda lawHomophobiaIn some ways, TransRealy prents a sanised versn of LGBT life Rsia.

It has virtually nothg to say, for stance, about the wave of homophobia that acpanied the passg of a 2013 law, which ntroversially banned the promotn of homosexualy among on LGBT life RsiaThe harsh realti facg LGBT Rsians the wake of this law were explored the BBC Three documentary "Gay and Unr Attack", part of Brish actor Reggie Yat's "Extreme Rsia" ptn, A BBC Three documentary last year highlighted the levels of homophobia RsiaNeverthels TransRealy's sympathetic treatment of alternative sexual liftyl is a world away om the sneerg and hostily regularly seen on domtic TV sce Vladimir Put's re-electn as print for a third term 2012, state TV has repeatedly sought to portray the acceptance of LGBT liftyl as a disease of the nt apparently orchtrated mpaign culmated a documentary lled "Sodom" shown on official channel Rossiya 1 jt a few months before TransRealy, which repeatedly referred to gay people as "sodom" and "perverts", equated homosexualy wh paedophilia and suggted that the mpaign for LGBT equaly was part of a US-backed nspiracy to unrme Rsian source, Rossiya 24Image ptn, Sodom - Rsian state's apolyptic view of the advance of LGBT equalyBy ntrast, RT Ameri's reports about recent ntroversi the US volvg LGBT rights have been scpuloly fair towards equaly mpaigners, even clearly favourg them on all the rhetoric about tradnal valu, when to fluencg dienc abroad the e of moral nservatism do not appear to be a Kreml the US, RT's target dience appears to be among the disaffected Left and the libertarian Right, many of whom are strong supporters of LGBT msag nng through both RT and state domtic media are hostily to the US ernment, Nato and other Wtern stutns, cludg the EU.

RSIA MAY EXPAND ITS 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN, DEEMG IT 'INSUFFICIENT'

SmokcreenHardle moral nservatism may not be much of a prry for the Kreml even at journalist Leonid Ragoz has argued on Coda Story, an English-language webse that has provid -pth verage of LGBT issu Rsia, the Wtern furore about the so-lled gay propaganda law may have acted as a kd of smokcreen for the real work of polil reprsn that has gone on relatively poted out that whereas the Unn of Solidary wh Polil Prisoners listed 59 people prison or unr hoe arrt on charg related to their polil activy, no-one had actually been locked up Rsia for LGBT activism as 's story TransRealy has a happy endg. Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about.

LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

The law aims to prohib the dissematn of rmatn that is nsired to promote non-tradnal sexual relatnships, particularly, but not solely, among 2022, chang regardg the ban on gay propaganda were ma to five laws: on rmatn, on the media, about the state support of cematography, on advertisg, and on the protectn of children om rmatn that is harmful to their health and velopment. All the above laws and amendments are referred to media as gay propaganda law or anti-gay law, which now fact affects not jt children, but almost any Rsian new amendments to the law prohib propaganda of genr transn, “non-tradnal sexual relatns and/or preferenc” along wh paedophilia, suggtg they are of the siar law aims to prevent spreadg “the distorted ias about the equal social value of tradnal and non-tradnal [LGBT] sexual relatnships”.

Dpe ternatnal nmnatn, the Rsian ernment has failed to hold those rponsible n also read some terviews of the real people, affected by this law:SocietyAcrdg to a 2021 survey nducted by the Levada Centre, a rpected pennt pollg anisatn Rsia, 60% of Rsians hold a negative attu towards homosexualy.

RSIA PASS ANTI-GAY-LAW

RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'

RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

EUROPEAN COURT BLASTS RSIA 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW

THE FEAR OF BEG GAY RSIA

RSIAN GAY PROPAGANDA LAWAFTER RSIA·FOLLOW6 M READ·APR 11--1LISTENSHAREHOW THE RSIAN REGIME FIGHTS FOR TRADNAL VALU“LET’S ANSWER SOME VERY SIMPLE QUTNS FOR OURSELV. I NOW WANT TO RETURN TO WHAT I SAID, I WANT TO ADDRS ALL THE CIZENS OF THE UNTRY — NOT ONLY TO THOSE LLEAGU WHO ARE THE HALL — TO ALL THE CIZENS OF RSIA: DO WE WANT TO HAVE, HERE, OUR UNTRY, RSIA, PARENT NUMBER ONE, NUMBER TWO, NUMBER THREE STEAD OF MOM AND DAD — HAVE THEY GONE MA OUT THERE? DO WE REALLY WANT PERVERSNS THAT LEAD TO GRADATN AND EXTCTN TO BE IMPOSED ON CHILDREN OUR SCHOOLS OM THE PRIMARY GRAS? TO BE DMMED TO THEM THAT THERE ARE VAR SUPPOSED GENRS BIS WOMEN AND MEN, AND TO BE OFFERED A SEX CHANGE OPERATN? DO WE WANT ALL THIS FOR OUR UNTRY AND OUR CHILDREN? FOR , ALL THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE, WE HAVE A DIFFERENT FUTURE, OUR OWN FUTURE.”VLADIMIR PUT ON ANNEXATN OF DOSK AND LUHANSK, 2020WHAT IS ?THE RSIAN FERAL LAW “FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTG CHILDREN OM INFORMATN ADVOTG A DENIAL OF TRADNAL FAY VALU”, ALSO KNOWN AS THE “GAY PROPAGANDA” OR “ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA” LAW, WAS SIGNED BY RSIAN PRINT VLADIMIR PUT ON 30TH JUNE 2013 AND ME TO EFFECT ON 29TH JUNE 2013. THE LAW AIMS TO PROHIB THE DISSEMATN OF RMATN THAT IS NSIRED TO PROMOTE NON-TRADNAL SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT SOLELY, AMONG MORS.IN 2022, CHANG REGARDG THE BAN ON GAY PROPAGANDA WERE MA TO FIVE LAWS: ON RMATN, ON THE MEDIA, ABOUT THE STATE SUPPORT OF CEMATOGRAPHY, ON ADVERTISG, AND ON THE PROTECTN OF CHILDREN OM RMATN THAT IS HARMFUL TO THEIR HEALTH AND VELOPMENT. THEREFORE, IALLY AIMED AT MORS, THE LAW WAS EXPAND TOWARDS ALL AG. ALL THE ABOVE LAWS AND AMENDMENTS ARE REFERRED TO MEDIA AS GAY PROPAGANDA LAW OR ANTI-GAY LAW, WHICH NOW FACT AFFECTS NOT JT CHILDREN, BUT ALMOST ANY RSIAN CIZEN.THE NEW AMENDMENTS TO THE LAW PROHIB PROPAGANDA OF GENR TRANSN, “NON-TRADNAL SEXUAL RELATNS AND/OR PREFERENC” ALONG WH PAEDOPHILIA, SUGGTG THEY ARE OF THE SIAR NATURE.THE LAW AIMS TO PREVENT SPREADG “THE DISTORTED IAS ABOUT THE EQUAL SOCIAL VALUE OF TRADNAL AND NON-TRADNAL [LGBT] SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS”. IT IMPOS F ON DIVIDUALS, ANISATNS, AND BS FOUND GUILTY OF VLATG THE LAW, WH HIGHER F FOR ANISATNS AND BS.ADDNALLY, JULY 2020, RSIA APPROVED A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT FG MARRIAGE AS A UNN BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, EFFECTIVELY BANNG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AT THE NSTUTNAL LEVEL.EFFECTS AND APPLITNSF: UP TO 400,000 BL ($6,370) FOR “LGBT PROPAGANDA” AND UP TO 200,000 BL ($3,185) FOR “MONSTRATNS OF LGBT AND RMATN THAT ENURAG A CHANGE OF GENR AMONG TEENAGERS.” THE F RISE TO UP TO 5 LN BL ($80,000) AND 4 LN BL ($64,000) RPECTIVELY FOR LEGAL ENTI.PROMOTN OF DISCRIMATN: THE LAW RERC DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS BY PROMOTG A NARROW AND DISCRIMATORY VIEW OF GENR AND SEXUALY. IT PERPETUAT HARMFUL STEREOTYP, STIGMATIS LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS, AND NTRIBUT TO A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT WHERE DISCRIMATN, HARASSMENT, AND VLENCE AGAST THEM ARE NORMALISED.RTRICTNS ON EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND ASSEMBLY: THE LAW RTRICTS EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND ASSEMBLY FOR LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS AND THEIR ALLI, MAKG DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO ADVOTE FOR THEIR RIGHTS, ACCS RMATN, AND EXPRS THEMSELV. IT HRS LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS OM ANISG PUBLIC EVENTS OR MONSTRATNS, SHARG RMATN ABOUT LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, OR EXPRSG THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY OPENLY.VLATN OF PRIVACY AND TONOMY: THE LAW VAS THE PRIVACY AND TONOMY OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS BY CRIMALISG THE EXPRSN OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY, PARTICULARLY THE PRENCE OF MORS. IT N LEAD TO TSIVE VTIGATNS, ARRTS, F, AND EVEN IMPRISONMENT FOR SIMPLY BEG OPEN ABOUT ONE’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY.IMPACT ON HEALTHRE: THE LAW N HR LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS’ ACCS TO HEALTHRE, CLUDG CRIL SERVIC SUCH AS HIV PREVENTN AND TREATMENT, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT, AND GENR-AFFIRMG MEDIL RE. IT NTRIBUT TO A CULTURE OF DISCRIMATN AGAST LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS HEALTHRE SETTGS AND MAY DISURAGE THEM OM SEEKG APPROPRIATE RE DUE TO FEAR OF DISCRIMATN OR LEGAL REPERCSNS.MARGALISATN AND EXCLN: THE LAW FURTHER MARGALISED LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS RSIA, CREATG A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY FACE DISCRIMATN, HARASSMENT, AND VLENCE THEIR DAILY LIV. IT RULTS SOCIAL EXCLN, LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT, HOG DISCRIMATN, AND LIMED ACCS TO PUBLIC SERVIC, FURTHER IMPEDG THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS AND WELL-BEG.CHECHNYAGAY RIGHTS CHECHNYA HAVE BEEN PARTICULARLY NCERNG. CHECHEN THORI HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO RRY OUT SYSTEMIC AND BTAL PERSECUTN OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS, CLUDG ARBRARY ARRTS, TORTURE, AND EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLGS. THE ACTNS HAVE BEEN WILY NMNED BY TERNATNAL HUMAN RIGHTS ANISATNS, BUT THE RSIAN ERNMENT HAS BEEN CRICISED FOR NOT TAKG EFFECTIVE MEASUR TO ADDRS THE SUATN.RSIA: NEW ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN CHECHNYAPOLICE CHECHNYA HAVE RRIED OUT A NEW ROUND OF UNLAWFUL TENTNS, BEATGS, AND HUIATN OF MEN THEY PRUME…CASTHE IMPLEMENTATN AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW HAVE LED TO VAR URT S AND PERSECUTN OF LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS AND ANISATNS RSIA. SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPL OF URT S RELATED TO THE GAY PROPAGANDA LAW CLU:NIKOLAY BAYEV: IN 2013, NIKOLAY BAYEV AND SEVERAL OTHER ACTIVISTS WERE FED FOR ANISG A PUBLIC EVENT SUPPORT OF LGBTQ+ RIGHTS. THEY CHALLENGED THE LAW THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (ECHR), ARGUG THAT VLATED THEIR RIGHTS TO EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND DISCRIMATN. IN 2017, THE ECHR LED THAT THE LAW WAS DISCRIMATORY AND VLATED THEIR RIGHTS UNR THE EUROPEAN CONVENTN ON HUMAN RIGHTS. YET, THE LAW HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED.MAKSIM PANKRATOV: IN 2014, MAKSIM PANKRATOV, A GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST, WAS FED FOR POSTG PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX UPL WH THEIR CHILDREN ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE THAT HE MANAGED. HE CHALLENGED THE LAW THE ECHR, ARGUG THAT VLATED HIS RIGHTS TO EEDOM OF EXPRSN AND DISCRIMATN. IN 2018, THE ECHR LED THAT THE LAW WAS DISCRIMATORY AND VLATED HIS RIGHTS UNR THE EUROPEAN CONVENTN ON HUMAN RIGHTS.YELENA GRIGORYEVA: YELENA GRIGORYEVA, A PROMENT LGBTQ+ ACTIVIST RSIA, WAS BTALLY MURRED JULY 2019 ST. PETERSBURG. SHE HAD BEEN RECEIVG ATH THREATS FOR HER ACTIVISM AND HAD REPORTED THEM TO THE POLICE PRR TO HER MURR, BUT NO ACTN WAS TAKEN TO PROTECT HER.MAXIM LAPUNOV: IN 2017, MAXIM LAPUNOV BEME THE FIRST PERSON TO PUBLICLY E FORWARD AND REPORT BEG TAED AND TORTURED CHECHNYA BEE OF HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. HIS SE SHED LIGHT ON THE WISPREAD ANTI-LGBTQ+ PERSECUTN CHECHNYA AND THE FAILURE OF RSIAN THORI TO ADDRS THE ISSUE.“GAY PURGE” CHECHNYA: IN 2017, REPORTS EMERGED OF A STATE-SPONSORED MPAIGN OF VLENCE AND PERSECUTN AGAST LGBTQ+ DIVIDUALS CHECHNYA. MANY DIVIDUALS WERE ARBRARILY TAED, TORTURED, AND EVEN KILLED BEE OF THEIR REAL OR PERCEIVED SEXUAL ORIENTATN. DPE TERNATNAL NMNATN, THE RSIAN ERNMENT HAS FAILED TO HOLD THOSE RPONSIBLE ACUNTABLE.YOU N ALSO READ SOME TERVIEWS OF THE REAL PEOPLE, AFFECTED BY THIS LAW:NIKOLAI’S STORYI WILL ALSO HAVE TO CENSOR SERGEY TROSH: "I APOLOGISE THAT WE ARE TIMIDATED.""WE'RE ALL UNR THE HOOD. YOU WALK DOWN THE STREET, THERE ARE MERAS AT EVERY STEP, YOU N'T HI. THERE ARE REALLY…VLADIMIR KOMOV: "AN ULTRA-RIGHT-WG REGIME AWAS RSIA."THE THORI NEED TO CHOOSE A CERTA ENEMY. AN ENEMY WHO IS ALWAYS AROUND YOU. WHO HAS SIGHTS, OH MY GOD, ON YOUR…SOCIETY