"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