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This text, voted unanimously and which must still be adopted by the Upper House on November 20, is part of the ultraconservative turn of Russian power on social issues, taken under the leadership of Vladimir Putin since the assault large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022.
“Traditional values”
According to the law, individuals who engage in the promotion of a child-free lifestyle would risk a fine of 400,000 rubles (around 4,000 euros) and civil servants double that. For legal entities, the sanction could be increased to five million rubles (47,000 euros).
Political and religious leaders see in the defense of so-called “traditional” values an extension of Russia’s struggle against the West, accused of moral “decadence”.
The rights of the LGBT community have notably been reduced to nothing.
“A strong family has been proclaimed as a traditional value. »
The law also aims to respond to the significant Russian demographic decline which Vladimir Putin has never managed to remedy since he came to power a quarter of a century ago.
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“A strong family has been proclaimed as a traditional value” in Russia in 2022, underline the authors of the text in an explanatory note. However, “one of the threats to traditional values is the promotion in Russian society of the ‘childless’ ideology, which leads to a degradation of social institutions […] and creates circumstances for depopulation,” they assert.
In the crosshairs of the promoters of the law, communities and groups which would expose themselves to heavy fines for doing what is described as the promotion of a “Childfree” lifestyle and which would have an aggressive attitude towards “those who carry out their need to be a mother or father”, whether on the internet, in the media and books, in films or in advertisements.
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