MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament on Thursday passed the third and final reading of a law that expands an existing ban on promoting “LGBT propaganda” to children by banning it amongst people of all ages.
Under the brand new law any event or act considered an try to promote homosexuality – including online, in film, books, promoting or in public – could incur a heavy advantageous.
The advantageous can be as much as 400,000 roubles ($6,600) for people and as much as 5 million roubles ($82,100) for legal entities. Foreigners could face 15 days of arrest and subsequent expulsion from the country.
(Reporting by Filipp Lebedev, editing by Mark Trevelyan/Guy Faulconbridge)
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