At the end of June, Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, signed into law a bill banning the spreading of ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’. Richard Mole argues that the law is targeted at LGBT activists, who are some of the Kremlin’s most public and vocal critics, and plays on existing intolerance towards homosexuality which dates back to the Soviet era. By banning ‘homosexual propaganda’, legally protecting ‘religious feeling’ and reining in ‘foreign agents’, Putin is seeking to entrench Russian traditional values in his on-going fight against Western liberalism.
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