Vladimir Putin is cracking down on Western countries after signing new adoption laws which prevent some countries from adopting Russian children, with further crackdowns made
Russia has made a huge change to an adoption law as Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on the West continues.
The Russian president, 72, signed into law a bill which banned the adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. Further changes were made by the Kremlin leader who approved legislation that outlaws the spread of material that encourages people not to have children.
Both Russia’s houses of parliament approved the bill previously, with the law one in a series of suppressions made against sexual minorities and a bolstering of longstanding conventional values of Russian life. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has since spoken on the latest adoption restrictions, with a post to Telegram revealing the reasoning behind the decision.
He said the new law is “extremely important to eliminate possible dangers in the form of gender reassignment that adopted children may face in these countries.” The law is set to ban at least 15 countries from adopting Russian children, including Canada, Argentina and Australia. Most of the other banned countries are in Europe.
Adoption of Russian citizens to foreign nations is a long-running ban in America, with US citizens prevented from carrying out adoption orders since 2012. Other bills approved by the Russian president has seen a ban on child-free propaganda and would impose a fine of five million rubles (£38,200) on those spreading information on child-free lives.
Putin and other top officials have continually introduced laws and regulations opposing Western liberalism, the Independent reported. Russia’s population has continued to decline despite Putin making statements advocating for larger families, urging women last year to have as many as eight children. Russia last year banned gender-transition medical procedures and its Supreme Court declared the LGBTQ+ “movement” to be extremist.
The Kremlin leader also signed a law prohibiting the distribution of LGBTQ+ information in 2022, expanding a ban issued in 2013 on disseminating the material to minors. Putin has also referred to the West as “satanic” and frequently accused European powers of attempting to undermine Russia by exporting its ideology.
It comes as Putin pulled top military brass into a secret meeting which could be in relation to threats made against the UK. Putin dropped a new Oreshnik hypersonic missile on Dnipro yesterday while tensions between Putin and the West continues to intensify. Russia’s ambassador has since claimed the UK is “directly involved” in the war with Ukraine after the use of UK missiles in Russia.
But Prime Minister Keir Starmer has insisted the UK “is not at war” with Russia. He said: “No, we’re not at war. But Ukraine certainly is, because Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, and that war has now been going on for just over 1,000 days. That’s a thousand days of aggression from Russia and a thousand days of sacrifice for Ukraine. And that is why we’ve said consistently that we stand by Ukraine. We cannot allow Putin to win this war.”