
View of people on March Against Adoption Ban in Moscow on Jan 13, 2013. People held march in Moscow to protest a recently adopted law that bans adoption of Russian children by US citizens. Image by Nickolay Vinokurov
A new measure that was recently passed by the lower house of parliament today in Russia will prohibit adoptions by people from countries where same-sex marriages are legal—this includes single people and unmarried straight couples. According to the Washington Post: “The lower house voted for the bill unanimously. After a third and final reading that is largely a formality, it must still be passed by the upper house, which is little more than a rubber-stamp body. Then it would go for signing to President Vladimir Putin, who has already expressed support for the ban.”
This news comes just a few weeks after the lower house unanimously passed a bill that bans “homosexual propaganda.”