Russian President Vladimir Putin has frequently used divisive culture war issues to distract from the costly and faltering invasion of Ukraine. He's doing so again, with a new law supposedly intended to prevent the spread of LGBT “propaganda.”
Russian LGBT activists at a rally in Moscow in 2020.
“We have our own way of development; we do not need European imposition of nontraditional relations,” one Kremlin official. It establishes criminal penalties for the dissemination of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and preferences, gender reassignment, and paedophilia, as well as for disseminating, among minors, information about non-traditional sexual relations and preferences or information that may encourage minors to change sex.
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, is a longtime foe of gay rights. He has previously sought to galvanize support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by raising the prospect ofRussian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill conducts the Easter service in Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on April 24. a 2013 provision banning LGBT “propaganda” targeting minors
. Neither measure explains what is entailed by “propaganda,” a loaded word in a nation where the memory of Soviet-style information campaigns remains fresh. Today, however, such campaigns are far more likely to be run by the Kremlin than by LGBT groups, many of which have been silenced, harassed and hounded out of existence,Putin, Kirill and top Kremlin officials have argued that the West is using Ukraine as a sort of beachhead to launch a cultural invasion of Russia.
. The rhetoric of spiritual combat seems to intentionally allude to the pugilistic approach that some Christian nationalist leaders in the West, including the United States, have taken in domestic politics.
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