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LGBTQ people around the world faced challenges with ongoing attacks and groundbreaking wins in an action-packed 2022.

Russia's new expanded ‘gay propaganda law has been criticised by human rights campaigners who have said that it will criminalise any mention of the LGBTQI community. 

A Russian LGBT support group fears that the ban might unleash a new wave of discrimination against the community within the country.

Russian lawmakers unanimously approved a bill banning all forms of LGBTQ "propaganda" in a final reading, as Moscow presses ahead with its conservative drive at home while its troops fight in Ukraine.

The bill criminalises any act regarded as an attempt to promote what Russia calls 'non-traditional sexual relations'

Bill criminalises promotion of ‘non-traditional sexual relations’ as Moscow pushes conservative values

Law also prohibits promoting 'pedophilia and sex change,' imposes $165,000 fine on violators, in bid to protect children from 'darkness' spread by West, parliament speaker says

The parliament has approved bills aimed at further constricting the country’s marginalised LGBT community.

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Ten years ago, on July 13, 2012, Russia’s parliament adopted its “foreign agent” law, using the pretext of foreign funding to demonize, harass, and silence the country’s robust civil society.  Russia’s expanding legislative arsenal against civil society and independent media has dealt devastating blows to anyone perceived as a critic.