Putin signs law tightening restrictions on “gay propaganda”

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The Russian president strengthened one of his pillars, social conservatismwith the adoption of a bill prohibiting any mention of homosexuality and sex changeas well as equating it with pedophilia, your book, video game, seriesmedia and advertisements. The restriction includes importing products that speak of these issues from other countries.

National telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor will have the authority to block pages in the country that contain “propaganda about non-traditional sexual relations, pedophilia or gender reassignment”. Over the course of this year, this government entity has already banned or blocked multiple people 138,000 pages – Due to the enforcement of other different laws, such as the law against what he describes as “false news”, including Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, which discredits the Russian Army. Fines provided for by the new law can reach up to 3,000 euros for citizens, 6,000 euros for officials and 12,000 euros for public institutions if they promote “unusual” sexual relations. Foreigners will also be subject to this regulation and if they violate they will have to pay fines like a Russian and exiled from the country.

“For the entire population”

marked Alexander BashkinA member of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, said that this law previously applied to minors, but “valid now” the entire population”. In his last speeches this year, President Putin accused him of “unconventional sexual relations” and argued he didn’t want it there in Russia, such as the day he celebrated the annexation of Ukraine’s southern and eastern regions. it could bedad 1 and dad 2”.

This bill has been voted on twice before, both the duma as in Russian Federation Council, and in both cases they voted in favor consensus, including representatives of so-called systemic opposition parties. These political entities, for example, Communist Party or Liberal-Democrat (known as LDPR by its acronym in Russian) supports the regime on important issues, but is used to appear to have a particular disagreement in decision-making processes that affect the country’s course.

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