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Originally Posted by Pointman
2. The propaganda or agitation instigating social, racial, national or religious hatred and strife shall not be allowed. The propaganda of social, racial, national, religious or linguistic supremacy shall be banned.
http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-03.htm |
That's not in Article 19, which is what you had pointed out.
And that doesn't prevent a "straight pride" parade, since in general a pride parade isn't about hatred or strife, but about the opposite, acceptance and friendship, and doesn't promote supremacy, but the opposite, equality. If it was a pride parade the promoted supremacy then yeah.
Also doesn't seem to prohibit someone from saying straight people are better than gay people, just limits propaganda.
The other questions remain unanswered...
In the absence of further information and based on what's been put forward so far, the only reasonable deduction is that the entire basis for the Russian law is to avoid "icky" situations like this.
