#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #RUSSIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Italy, Anarchico Galatea FAI: What is the new anti-LGBTQ + law in #Russia - and what does it threaten? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 from the telegram channel of "Feminist Anti-Militarist Resistance" (FAS) (???)

---- "We cannot lose this battle, as the future of Russian civilization depends
on it." ---- (Pyotr Tolstoy) ---- Yesterday the State Duma held a high profile
meeting on new bills against LGBTQ + people. Aside from the allegations of
sodomy[from the cartoon]Peppa Pig, the attempts to "justify Nabokov" and the
constant refrain of Satanism, the situation is extremely alarming. ---- MEPs and
invited experts reviewed two packages of documents. ---- The first, on the
initiative of Nina Ostanina (Communist Party of the Russian Federation
(Kommunisticeskaja partija Rossijskoj Federacii (KPRF)), president of the
Commission for the Family, Women and Children of the Duma, joined by deputies of
the KPRF , of "Just Russia - For the Truth" (Spravedlivaja Rossija - Za pravdu,
(SRZP)) and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (Liberal'no-demokraticeskaja
partija Rossii (LDPR)), is in the public domain on the Duma website of State.[1]

The second - more famous - represented by the deputy Alexander Khinshtein of
"United Russia" (Edinaja Rossija (ER)), has already been discussed on social
networks; it is not published on official platforms, but on Khinshtein's telegram
channel.

Both relate to laws on media, information, information technology and information
protection, as well as state support for cinema; but Khinshtein also included
legislative amendments on protecting children from harmful information and
advertising, also proposing to expand the famous article 6.21 of the 2013 Code of
Administrative Offenses (propaganda on non-traditional sexual relations between
minors) and to increase sanctions.

Following the meeting, the chairman of the State Duma, Viacheslav Volodin,
commissioned an inter-party working group to combine both packages, which should
be led by another ardent fighter for traditional family values: Pyotr Tolstoy.

In his telegram post, Volodin pledged to protect Russian citizens from
degradation and extinction, and therefore the new combined version of the bill
will be examined shortly - as early as next Thursday, and likely signed in November.

So what are they threatening to change these laws?

-First of all: the law will "protect" everyone, regardless of age;

-In addition to "propaganda", a "demonstration" has been added (the prohibition
of "description, representation of non-traditional sexual relationships and / or
sexual preferences" is imposed)[which]until now[was]only for minors. But as we
can see, the age limits are easily widened. This means that the representation in
the media and culture of anything other than the law will be punished with fines
and, if the requirements of the experts are met, with a criminal action;

-The pun is one of the most effective weapons of the ongoing war. Many speakers
have suggested using "understandable and familiar concepts" such as "sex"
(biological), "sodomy" and "homosexualism" in place of alien words such as
"gender" and "LGBTQ +". Obviously the nostalgia for article 121 of the Soviet
Criminal Code[(the one in which people were sentenced]"for sodomy") is now
stronger than ever;

- Pedophilia and "non-traditional relationships" go together - this is one
package of documents. The discussion often referred to "extremism", the
"compromise of constitutional norms" and the demand to persecute LGBTQ + symbols,
which clearly outlines the authorities' future prospects in this direction;

-During the discussion of the bill, a militaristic rhetoric emerged. LGBTQ +
propaganda has been defined as the centerpiece of a hybrid spiritual war declared
by "the whole West" against Russia.
According to the deputy and owner of the Tsargrad channel, Konstantin Malofeev,
the denial of traditional family values is at the forefront of this war, that is,
at the front. In fact, the failures[of the current conflict]have been associated
with the decline of morality: defeating "sodomy" will lead to winning the war;

-The aggressive attacks by Volodin - who uses a harsher language than the authors
of the bills themselves -, and Putin's constant reference to issues such as
"certain genders" and "parents number 1 and 2", suggest that the laws will be
likely adopted soon and will be used for witch hunts or demonstrative reprisals
against "hybrid warfare agents" - played by LGBTQ + families, book publishers and
filmmakers.

We do not want to spread panic, but we believe that the situation is dangerous
and that we must fight against it!

Note from translators
[1]"The president of the Commission for Family, Women and Children, Nina
Ostanina, noted that the concept of non-traditional family relationships should
be enshrined in law so that their propaganda can be punished. "We have our own
way of developing, we don't need the imposition of non-traditional
European[Western]relations," she says. "
"The State Duma discussed legislative initiatives directed against propaganda on
non-traditional sexual relations", duma.gov.ru, October 17, 2022.
Link: http://duma.gov.ru/news/55510/

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