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		</div><p>Russian legislators have given their final approval to a bill that significantly expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting gay rights in the country.</p>
<p>The move is another step in a years-long crackdown on the country’s embattled LGBTQ community.</p>
<p>The new bill expands a ban on what authorities call “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” to minors, established by legislation dubbed the “gay propaganda” law.</p>
<p>It was adopted by the Kremlin in 2013 in an effort to promote “traditional values” in Russia.</p>
<p>This year, legislators moved to ban spreading such information to people aged 18 and older.</p>
<p>The bill was approved in the third and final reading on Thursday by the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.</p>
<p>It will go next to the upper house, the Federation Council, and then to President Vladimir Putin, whose signature will give it legal force.</p>
<p>The new bill outlaws all advertising, media and online resources, books, films and theatre productions deemed to contain such “propaganda”, a concept loosely defined in the bill.</p>
<p>The 2013 ban was often enacted against any depictions of same-sex unions and used as a tool to crack down on LGBTQ rights groups and activists.</p>
<figure id="attachment_176541" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-176541" style="width: 791px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/32BC4FB5-9C68-45D8-9760-5B57DC37EEEB.jpeg" alt="" width="791" height="534" class="size-full wp-image-176541" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-176541" class="wp-caption-text">The bill would significantly expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQ rights in the country (The State Duma, The Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Violations are punishable by fines. If committed by non-residents, they can lead to their expulsion from Russia.</p>
<p>The fines range from 100,000 to two million roubles (£1,380-£27,500). For some violations, foreigners could face 15 days’ detention prior to expulsion.</p>
<p>The bill does not make violations a criminal offence. Russian law stipulates that the criminal code can be amended only through an independent bill. Some legislators have suggested they favour such a measure.</p>
<p>Russia explicitly outlawed same-sex marriages in 2020 by adopting amendments to the country’s constitution that, among other things, stipulated that the “institution of marriage is a union between a man and a woman”.</p>
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