Kazakhstan’s lower parliament pushed ahead with anti-LGBTQ legislation Wednesday that appears to mirror Russian law, as the country’s president met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The new measures would ban the “dissemination of information containing propaganda of pedophilia and/or non-traditional sexual orientation” in public spaces, through media or online, the parliament, known as the Mäjilis, said in a press statement.
This proposed ban is designed to “protect children from content harmful to their health and development,” according to the statement.
The package of legislation would still have to be approved by Kazakhstan’s Senate before becoming…
