The statute amended the country's child protection law and the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses, to prohibit the distribution of ' propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships' among minors. The Russian government's stated purpose for the law is to protect children from being exposed to homosexuality-condem presenting homosexuality as being a norm in society-under the argument that it contradicts traditional family values.
The Russian federal law ' for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values,' also referred to in English-language media as the gay propaganda law and the anti-gay law, is a bill that was unanimously approved by the State Duma on 11 June 2013 (with just one MP abstaining- Ilya Ponomarev), and was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on 30 June 2013.
