MOSCOW, 5 December. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, gender reassignment and paedophilia. Information about the signing by the president appeared on Monday in the card of this law in the database of the State Duma.

Amendments were made to the law ‘On information, information technologies and information protection’ and other documents. According to them, such propaganda is now completely prohibited in social networks, the media, cinema, and advertising. For example, a film that promotes non-traditional sexual relations or preferences, paedophilia, or gender reassignment, will not be able to receive a distribution certificate.

Separately, the distribution of such information among minors is prohibited – previously, the restriction applied only to materials about LGBT people.

It is planned to create a mechanism that will restrict children’s access to listening to or viewing LGBT information on paid services. To verify your age, you will need to enter codes or perform other actions.

Roskomnadzor will be able to include resources with the promotion of non-traditional relationships, paedophilia, and sex change in a single register of prohibited information for its subsequent blocking. It also gains the right to determine the monitoring procedure for identifying such information on the Internet. Monitoring will be carried out by an organization authorized by the government.

It will not be possible to sell goods, including imported ones, with information for the dissemination of which administrative or criminal liability is provided.

In parallel, another federal law, signed by Putin, amends the Code of Administrative Offenses and introduces administrative liability for the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations in relation to persons of any age (not just children).

As Alexander Bashkin, a member of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation and state building explained earlier, propaganda of paedophilia and LGBT in relation to minors was previously prohibited. Now it extends to persons of any age. The law comes into force from the day of its publication.