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Post by TsarSamuil on Nov 27, 2021 8:46:39 GMT -5
Russian parliament mulls ban on gay movie scenes.
RT.com
22 Nov, 2021 18:32
A bill that would ban scenes showing homosexual relations in films and TV shows is set to be considered by the Russian parliament, the Deputy Chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on Family Affairs, Women, and Children has said.
Speaking to RIA Novosti on Monday about the proposals, Vitaly Milonov of the governing United Russia party confirmed that the law will be scrutinized in the State Duma and that work on the text is underway. “The legal solution to this situation is just around the corner,” he said.
Milonov, a high-profile MP, said that people should have the right to ask the state’s regulator to not allow the broadcast of films with LGBT+ content. “Whoever wants can have special access to such videos, as well as with pornography,” he remarked, stating that there is a public demand to not depict homosexual scenes.
A survey from the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) released earlier on Monday revealed that 80% of respondents believe that it is unacceptable to show homosexual relations in films and TV shows with age 18+ restrictions, while 57% of Russians surveyed said that the screening of scenes showing what they consider to be “sexual deviance” should be banned.
The consideration of the legislation against content depicting same-sex relationships coincides with a member of Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights telling Vedomosti that he had developed a “catalog” to mark so-called ‘toxic content’ on the internet. The resource would flag topics such as radical feminism, ‘childfree’ lifestyles, as well as the promotion of homosexuality and bestiality.
Milonov, known for making inflammatory remarks about the LGBT+ community, attracted a backlash from Russia’s Human Rights Council in August after he brandished homosexual people as being the “lowest stage of development of the animal world.” The official also called for the country’s gay population to be “sterilized” like stray cats, while the head of Russia’s Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, said he should “watch his language” on the subject.
Russia enacted what is often termed a ‘gay propaganda law’ in 2013, which saw restrictions enforced against content deemed to endorse “non-traditional sexual values among minors.” The legislation has been criticized both domestically and internationally for allegedly attacking LGBT rights. However, President Vladimir Putin has defended the move, insisting it “has nothing to do with persecuting individuals for their sexual orientation.”
Asked by journalists in 2014 about his views on the subject, the Russian leader said, “I don’t care about a person’s orientation, and I myself know some people who are gay. We are on friendly terms. I’m not prejudiced in any way.”
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Post by TsarSamuil on Nov 27, 2021 8:47:57 GMT -5
Police to investigate Netflix over LGBT movies & series.
RT.com
25 Nov, 2021 11:23
Russia’s police will launch an investigation into streaming service Netflix after complaints from a “family protection” activist that the American company is spreading propaganda of “non-traditional sexual relations” among minors.
According to Moscow daily Vedomosti, Olga Baranets wrote to the authorities complaining about a number of TV shows, including Elite, Young Royals, and Sex Education.
Olga Baranets is the leader of a group named the “Public Commission for Family Protection,” which proclaims to support “the rights of families and children.” According to the activist, Netflix has broken the law.
In 2013, Russia enacted what is known colloquially as the “gay propaganda law,” which implemented restrictions on the endorsement of “non-traditional sexual values among minors.” In Baranets’ opinion, some movies and TV shows on Netflix are in violation of these legal requirements. Following the complaint, Russia’s Interior Ministry will conduct an investigation. If found guilty, Netflix could face a fine of up to 1 million rubles ($13,400).
Earlier this month, a Moscow court fined Russian music channel ‘Muz TV’ under the same law after a series of incidents during a music awards ceremony. The show made headlines after showing pop stars Philipp Kirkorov and Dava in a white car surrounded by topless male models. The channel also broadcasted video of blogger Igor Sinyak wearing a dress and social media star Danya Milohin donning a half-tuxedo half-dress combo.
The exact reason for the fine was not announced by media watchdog Roskomnadzor.
The “gay propaganda” legislation has been criticized internationally, with detractors both at home and abroad calling it an attack on LGBT rights. Ruling party politicians have even questioned the law, with then-MP Oksana Pushkina saying last year that state policy “needs to be adjusted.”
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Post by TsarSamuil on Dec 8, 2021 15:59:09 GMT -5
Russia rejects rights of sexual minorities & gender diversity – Putin ally.
RT.com
6 Dec, 2021 13:34
The Russian people are opposed to the “imposition” of ideas like the rights of sexual minorities and “gender diversity,” the speaker of the country’s upper house said on Sunday, calling them “alien values.”
Speaking on Sunday at a meeting with Fawzia Zainal, the head of Bahrain’s Council of Representatives, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko said that it is unacceptable to put foreign values on a country without taking into account its history, faith, religion, and national characteristics.
According to Matvienko, who is currently on a three-day working visit to Manama, Russia’s focus is on the “traditional family,” and children are “the main priority of state policy.”
“They are trying to impose alien values on us. And not only on us, but on the advancement in the world in general,” she said. “It’s sexual minority rights. There are already 85 genders in Europe. It is unacceptable for us,” she said.
She later met with Ali bin Saleh Al-Saleh, the chairman of Bahrain’s Consultative Council, where she continued to speak about LGBT rights.
“We see what is happening in a number of countries,” she said, suggesting that some nations now have “quotas” for a certain number of LGBT representatives in government.
Earlier this year, a transgender woman was appointed head of a regional branch of the party Civic Initiative, marking a first in Russian politics. Yulia Aleshina cited the successes of foreign transgender politicians as her inspiration.
“In 2020, I came across an article about transgender politicians around the world. It talked about the US and the EU,” she told the newspaper. “I learned that there are already transgender politicians, MPs, and even transgender mayors there. I thought if it is possible there, why is it not possible in Russia?”
According to a September poll by the Levada Center, 53% of Russians believe homosexual relationships should not be allowed, even involving two consenting adults. A further 16% said that they partially agree with this view.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Dec 23, 2021 4:27:03 GMT -5
EU court sides with LGBT couple in ‘huge’ development.
RT.com
14 Dec, 2021 16:43
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled that member states must recognize LGBT+ parents and their children as one family, after Bulgarian authorities refused to give a birth certificate to the daughter of a same-sex couple.
The landmark decision, made on Tuesday, saw the European court declare that member states must all guarantee the same right, regardless of domestic policies, to guarantee the child’s freedom of movement across the bloc.
Bulgarian Kalina Ivanova and British Gibraltar-born Jane Jones launched the case after Bulgarian authorities wouldn’t grant a birth certificate to their daughter, who was born in Spain in 2019, as officials stated that a child cannot legally have two mothers.
Currently, same-sex marriages and partnerships are not recognized in Bulgaria, which further prevented Ivanova from getting Bulgarian citizenship for her daughter.
As neither of the mothers are Spanish, they couldn’t receive citizenship there and, under the British Nationality Act of 1981, UK citizenship can’t be transferred to a child born in Gibraltar. Concerned that their child could be left stateless, with no passport, citizenship, or other documentation, the parents filed a case with the CJEU to address the situation.
Upholding the rights of the LGBT+ couple and their family situation, the CJEU declared that depriving the child of her “right of free movement” because “her parents are of the same-sex” violates her “fundamental rights” guaranteed under EU legislation.
While accepting that nations can independently decide on “whether or not to allow marriage and parenthood” for same-sex couples, the court stated that this cannot result in a contravention of the rights the “child derives from EU law.”
Under the ruling, the CJEU ordered Bulgaria to issue the child a passport. The case cannot be appealed.
Welcoming the decision, lawyers representing the parents called it a “huge step for all LGBTQ families in Bulgaria and Europe.” The duo promised that they would launch further action to secure legal recognition in Bulgaria as the legal parents of the child.
"The judgment has brought long-awaited clarification that parenthood established in one EU Member State cannot be discarded by another, under the pretence of protecting the 'national identity’,” Arpi Avetisyan, head of litigation at NGO ILGA-Europe, said in response to the ruling.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Feb 21, 2022 13:58:47 GMT -5
Senators propose banning online feminist content.
RT.com
20 Feb, 2022 11:09
Russian senators have proposed a bill to make content promoting the feminist and childfree movements completely illegal, in a bid to stop so-called “radical” material from being posted online.
Senator Margarita Pavlova, one of the bill's authors, told RIA Novosti that lawmakers in the country's upper house of parliament were working on expanding the list of banned subject matter and intended to include radical feminist material and content promoting voluntary childlessness among the prohibited topics.
“We are working with Roskomnadzor on a bill to expand the lists of topics of destructive content to be blocked,” the senator said.
Roskomnadzor is the government body that oversees communications, information technology, and mass media.
According to Pavlova, a large amount of online content appears at first to be promoting worthy causes – for example, gender equality – but it is, in fact, a facade. The senator said such content conceals material that encourages damaging ideas and activity.
“Under the guise of protecting the violated rights of women, traditional family values and the role of women in the family is belittled – so-called radical feminism,” she said. “Under the guise of freedom of choice, the idea of refusing to build a family and have children is promoted – so-called childlessness.”
The expansion of the internet blacklist will take into account the views of various parent communities, as well as structures that monitor social networking sites. Russia's most popular domestic social media platform, VKontakte, which has over 90 million monthly users, could be part of the problem, Pavlova added.
“I get more and more complaints about our social network VKontakte,” she said. “There, too, all this destructive content is present, and sometimes users, even with complaints, cannot block certain information.”
Furthermore, the senator noted her optimism that the prominent presence of legislation in the virtual world will aid efforts to ensure internet safety for young Russian users, who are often the targeted victims of online hate and harm.
“I think this year will be a turning point, since we already see what steps need to be taken,” she concluded.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Apr 1, 2022 12:25:25 GMT -5
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Post by TsarSamuil on Apr 9, 2022 19:48:38 GMT -5
Russian census results revealed.
RT.com
8 Apr, 2022 18:05
Russia’s population has grown by almost five million over the last decade to reach 147 million, the government statistics agency Rosstat revealed on Friday, citing the preliminary results of the latest census from late 2021.
Over half of that increase is accounted for by the 2014 reabsorption of Crimea.
In 2010, when the previous nationwide census was held, the country's population was more than 142 million.
Initially, a nationwide census was planned for 2020, but ended up being delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, Rosstat reported that the natural population decrease in Russia in 2021 amounted to 1.042 million people – the largest drop in post-Soviet history.
More than 517,000 people diagnosed with Covid-19 died in Russia in 2021, which is three times as many as in 2020, when around 163,000 Covid-19-related deaths were reported.
According to the census, Moscow remains the nation’s most populous city. The capital’s population has grown by 1.3 million since 2010 to reach 13 million people. Saint Petersburg occupies a distant second place with a population of 5.6 million, which is 0.7 million more than a decade ago.
Meanwhile, Crimea’s Black Sea port of Sevastopol has emerged as Russia’s fastest growing settlement. The seaside resort city, which has mild winters and warm summers, has become a popular migration destination for Russians, and its population has grown by 17.8 percent over the last three years, the Russian media reported earlier this week.
The census was held between October and November 2021. The final results are expected to be announced in May. Russia is the world’s largest country by area. Yet, in terms of population it occupies ninth place, behind India, China, the US, as well as Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, and Bangladesh.
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