The statute amended the country's child protection law and the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses, to prohibit the distribution of " propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships" among minors. The Russian government's stated purpose for the law is to protect children from being exposed to homosexuality-condemn presenting homosexuality as being a norm in society-under the argument that it contradicts traditional family values. The Russian federal law " for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating a Denial of Traditional Family Values", also referred to in English-language media as Russia's gay propaganda law or anti-gay law, is a bill that was unanimously approved by the State Duma on 11 June 2013 (with just one MP abstaining- Ilya Ponomarev), then unanimously approved by the Federation Council on 27 June 2013 and was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on 30 June 2013.
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