A bill banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” in Russia has been submitted to the State Duma. Document published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The initiators of the changes are deputies Nina Ostanina, Olga Alimova, Yana Lantratova, Nikolai Burlyaev, Alexei Zhuravlev and Alexei Kornienko.
“The propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations has become widespread in modern Russia, carried out both through the media and by representing deviant behavior, such as the active organization of public events, screenings of films online and the demonstration of such relationships in the cinema. norm,” he says in the bill’s explanatory note.
Its authors state that the proposed measures are aimed at ensuring the “intellectual, moral and mental safety of society.” Now, at the legislative level, propaganda of suicide, drugs, extremism, criminal behavior is not allowed, but “officially, so far, there is no ban on propaganda of the denial of family values and unconventional sexual relations”.
At the same time, public endorsement and recognition of such relationships is “dangerous not only for children and youth, but for society as a whole,” as it puts future demographic and economic growth issues “at certain risk.” The authors of the amendments say that denying the family as a social value and promoting a so-called “childless” lifestyle is also “least dangerous”.
According to the initiators of the bill, the restrictions cannot be considered as violating the constitutional rights of citizens.
“The prohibition of propaganda does not deprive citizens of the opportunity and right to determine their sexual orientation and orientation, does not allow them to be discriminated against, but does not give the right to public approval and dissemination of such relations. -The so-called “new” values, which carry hidden threats to society, emphasizes the deputies.
The draft proposes to prohibit the dissemination of “information promoting the denial of family values and non-traditional sexual relations” in the law “Information, information technologies and information protection”.
In addition, the “Law on State Support for Cinematography of the Russian Federation” may be amended to directly prohibit the issuance of distribution certificates to cinemas for films that “allow propaganda for the denial of family values”. traditional sexual relations. And in the law “On the Mass Media” – the prohibition of the dissemination of such propaganda.
“The law is much broader than the ban on LGBT propaganda”
Nina Ostanina, one of the authors of the amendments, emphasized in an interview with socialbites.ca that it is not just about the banning of LGBT propaganda.
“We are formulating exactly that. On the one hand, prohibiting the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, and on the other hand, prohibiting the propaganda of denial of traditional family values.”
– Ostanina noted that “forbidding something” may not contribute at all to the fact that “other values will be promoted in our country.”
Thus, the “childless” movement became widespread and “mainly aims at the denial of traditional family values”, not the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations. “And our traditional family values are children. So the law is much broader than the law as it is now interpreted, which aims to ban LGBT propaganda.”
Speaking of bans on film distribution, Ostanina expressed confidence that the administrative penalty would force the filmmakers to “make a decision for themselves” – either pay a half-million fine or refuse to “promote such things.” “These are administrative fines, we are talking about administrative fines, because the law on the protection of children today … What is a fine of 50 thousand rubles? So now of course we’re going to increase it many times and dozens of times so that it’s disrespectful,” she said.
“How are we going to violate your right if you don’t see naked aunts running around and kissing on stage at the Gogol Center? That being said, please shut yourself up in the attic and do what you want. That’s the whole point,” he concluded.
Ostanina also added that “if a person speaks openly about himself” it is “not considered propaganda”.
Propaganda among children
On March 30, 2012, St. Petersburg, a law was enacted banning the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors. Similar legal bans were introduced in the Ryazan, Arkhangelsk, Kostroma, Novosibirsk, Magadan regions and a number of other Russian regions.
On June 11, 2013, the State Duma of the Russian Federation passed a law prohibiting “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors. The adopted law completed the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation article 6.21and also amended the federal law “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to their Health and Development”, which also includes information that promotes non-traditional sexual relations is prohibited from being disseminated among children.
In July, journalist Yuri Dudya (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation) found guilty for promoting homosexuality among minors (part 2 of article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and a fine of 120 thousand rubles. Dud did not attend the hearing. The administrative case was opened after a journalist interviewed Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, a performance artist and former host of the TV show “Under-16 and Over”. The video was uploaded to YouTube as “18+”.
On June 7, 2022, the Sevastopol Legislative Assembly presented to the Russian State Duma a bill imposing fines (up to 500 thousand rubles for citizens and up to 10 million rubles for legal entities) not only for promoting unconventional sexual relations between minors. , but also to promote LGBT persons in general among any audience.