# Putin signs the 2022 expansion of the ‘LGBT propaganda’ ban to adults

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 5 December 2022 President Putin signed a statute expanding the 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ ban from minors to all ages, with fines for online and public information that depicts non-traditional sexual relations.

## Context

The 2013 law had already constrained public information aimed at minors. The 2022 text closed the adult remainder during the war. Putin signed; the Duma passed; Roskomnadzor and courts apply. He did not write every later website fine by hand.

The 2013 original is a neighbouring earlier statute. Wartime censorship of army reporting is a different file.

The president of the Russian Federation is commander-in-chief and can issue decrees, sign statutes the Federal Assembly has passed, and represent the state abroad. He does not write UN General Assembly resolutions, ICC warrants, or European Council conclusions.

## Evidence and sources

President of Russia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights): a completed nationwide speech ban about adult same-sex life is a rights restriction, not a public-health series.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 5 December 2022 signed statute expanding the propaganda ban to adults.

Not established: a unique later health coefficient, or that every 2013 case is this 2022 text.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Duma passed it. Regulators apply it.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Putin signs the 2022 expansion of the ‘LGBT propaganda’ ban to adults, not a later speech about Putin signs the 2022 expansion of the ‘LGBT propaganda’ ban to adults.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Putin signs the 2022 expansion of the ‘LGBT propaganda’ ban to adults on 2022-12-05 is not a licence to treat every later President of Russia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Putin signs the 2022 expansion of the ‘LGBT propaganda’ ban to adults into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed the expansion. The Duma passed it. Regulators apply it. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Vladimir Putin: https://factrail.ai/people/vladimir-putin

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-signs-law-expanding-russias-rules-against-lgbt-propaganda-2022-12-05/
- https://en.kremlin.ru/acts/news/69974

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-anti-lgbt-expansion-2022