Russian president Vladimir Putin has frequently used divisive culture war issues to distract from the costly and faltering invasion of Ukraine he launched last February. He did so again on Monday, with a new law supposedly intended to prevent the spread of LGBT 'propaganda.'
"We have our own way of development; we do not need European imposition of nontraditional relations," one Kremlin official. It establishes criminal penalties for the dissemination of"propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and preferences, gender reassignment, and paedophilia, as well as for disseminating, among minors, information about non-traditional sexual relations and preferences or information that may encourage minors to change sex.
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, is a longtime foe of gay rights. He has previously sought to galvanize support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine by raising the prospect of
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