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Critics say the bill would effectively ban gay rights rallies and events. Homosexuality was decriminalised after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but a poll by the independent Levada Centre last month found 38 percent of Russians believe gay people need treatment and 13 percent said they should face prosecution. Putin has championed socially conservative values and the moral authority of the Russian Orthodox Church during his new term which began in May last year, after a series of large street protests by mostly liberal Russians in big cities.
Putin has said Russia does not discriminate against gay people but has criticised them for failing to increase the population.
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