"These bills are designed to protect people, ensure their health and safety," Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote in a post to Telegram. "It is necessary to do everything so that new generations of our citizens grow up oriented toward traditional family values."
One of the bills would ban the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transition is legal. "The most dangerous thing in this situation is that the state can control the absence of a gender change in potential adoptive parents only at the time of adoption on the territory of the Russian Federation," lawmakers wrote in the bill's explanatory notes.
The second bill would ban what it terms "childfree propaganda" that promotes non-traditional families as a positive environment for children. Media companies and social media sites would be required to monitor content to ensure compliance with the law.
Failure to comply with the law would bring fines up to 5 million rubles.
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