{"id":684,"date":"2025-06-16T07:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:58:46","slug":"russia-never-banned-gays-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/russia-never-banned-gays-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia never banned gays \u2014 Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moscow has only shielded traditional values from Western propaganda, the president said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia has banned propaganda promoting same-sex relations but has never sought to outlaw homosexuality itself, according to President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the Russian\u00a0Supreme Court declared the<em>\u00a0\u201cinternational LGBT movement\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to be an extremist organization.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have only discussed a ban on propaganda. We have never spoken about banning non-traditional relationships. Moreover, we have always maintained that all people are equal,\u201d<\/em> Putin said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin released on Sunday. <em>\u201cAdults have the right to live as they choose.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Putin emphasized that he backed the 2013 law banning <em>\u201cLGBTQ propaganda\u201d<\/em> for minors because he believed that <em>\u201cWestern mainstream ideology was being injected into the minds of the Russian people.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>In 2022, the law was expanded to include adults.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/684183422030273f1a590392.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/618683-oxford-russia-fund-subversive-activities-fsb\/\">Moscow accuses British NGO of subversive activities in universities<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Russia is ethnically and religiously diverse, the majority <em>\u201cshares common core beliefs about morality,\u201d<\/em> Putin said. <em>\u201cIf we stop upholding our traditional values, Russia will lose its identity and, as a consequence, its statehood \u2014 which is extremely dangerous,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo-called global liberalism has outlived itself and transformed into a form of totalitarianism,\u201d<\/em> Putin said, arguing that many people in Western Europe and North America share his views.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI hope that our open, honest, and clear position on these issues has emboldened like-minded people in the US and other countries,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow has only shielded traditional values from Western propaganda, the president said Russia has banned propaganda promoting same-sex relations but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinemalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}