Vladimir Putin says marriage to remain a 'union of man and woman' as long as he's president

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has stressed that marriage is solely a heterosexual union and supported the idea of enshrining the notion in the country's updated constitution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday stressed that marriage is solely a heterosexual union and supported the idea of enshrining the notion in the country's updated constitution.

"This is the right idea and it should be supported. We need to only think about how to formulate it and where," he said after conservative lawmaker Olga Batalina said Russia's constitution should uphold"traditional family values." At the televised meeting Thursday, members advised putting into the constitution phrases about Russia being a"peacemaking state" for humankind, and a country that was victorious in World War II, among a huge range of other offers.One committee member Yelena Isinbayeva, who holds the world record in the pole vault, admitted she had never read the constitution prior to being tapped by Mr Putin to join the group.

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