Russian government grants federal censor ability to ban sites with information about LGBTQ people

Source: Russian legal information portal

A new decree issued by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Monday grants Roskomnadzor, the country's federal censor, the ability to ban websites that contain information about LGBTQ+ people.

Under the new policy, among other changes, the presence of “information promoting non-traditional sexual relationships and (or) preferences, pedophilia, [or] sex change” will now be considered grounds for banning sites.

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Russian government grants federal censor ability to ban sites with information about LGBTQ people

For whom how Russia bans LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda,’ the ‘imposition of information’ about homosexuality and ‘sex reassignment.’ Here’s the law broken down.

‘We won’t pull any books — until our own spines are horizontal’ How the war and the new anti-LGBTQ+ censorship laws have plunged Russian publishers and booksellers into crisis

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