Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a new law which makes gender-affirming medical procedures illegal. The new bill, which was approved unanimously by both houses of Russia’s parliament ...
While books were also covered under the propaganda law’s expansion in 2022, the esteem Russians hold for literature and the ...
Growing crackdown on Russia's LGBT+ community: first convictions under extremist law issued Putin's election adversary and ...
A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The ...
Pair are accused of roles in ‘extremist organisation’ and could face up to 10 years in prison A Russian court has ordered two bar workers to be placed in custody, accusing them of roles in an ...
Gay rights activists hold a banner that says, "Homophobia - the religion of bullies," as they protest in Moscow's Red Square on July 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman, File) TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — ...
The EU disagrees that the law resembles Western transparency regulations, such as EU and French planned directives and the US ...
Georgians continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against draft legislation that they say would infringe on their ...
LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Roberto Carnero, an Italian literature professor at the University of Bologna, was shocked when he received a call from his Italian publisher in March about the Russian ...
LONDON, April 16 (Reuters) - A Russian poetry competition has banned transgender people from submitting entries this year, in what it says is an effort to protect traditional values. The Andrei ...
The organizers of a poetry competition in Russia open to all writers regardless of nationality or citizenship have explicitly banned entries from members of the transgender community. The rules ...