- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✖ Not legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Single only
- Discrimination✖ No protections
- Employment DiscriminationAmbiguous
- Housing Discrimination✖ No protections
- Military✔ Legal
- Donating Blood✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
Public Opinion
"Should Society Accept Homosexuality?"
Russia ranks #25 out of 39 countries surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June 4, 2013)
(74%) No
Yes (16%)
By The Numbers
51%
of Russians would not want a homosexual neighbor
(Associated Press, 2014)
16%
of Russians believe homosexuals should be isolated from society
5%
believe homosexuals should be physically destroyed
(Levada Center, 2013)
38%
of Russians would not want a homosexual neighbor
(Associated Press, 2012)
History
Current status
(since Dec 29, 1995)
(since Dec 29, 1995)
Not legal
Current status
(since Nov 15, 1997)
(since Nov 15, 1997)
Legal, but requires surgery
Transgender people are able to change their gender on identification documents after being issued a document from a health institution confirming the surgical requirements.
Current status
(since Dec 29, 1995)
(since Dec 29, 1995)
Single only
Adoption is being regulated by the Civil Procedure Code of Russia (Chapter 29); Family Code of Russia (Chapter 19); Federal Law On Acts of Civil Status (Chapter V). None of these documents contain any direct restriction or ban for homosexual people to ado
Current status
(since Jul 29, 2013)
(since Jul 29, 2013)
No protections
Signed into law by President Vladimir Putin, the law on “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors” criminalizes public expression of support for nontraditional relationships.
Current status
Ambiguous
In one area a person was charged for refusing to hire a gay person.
Current status
(since Jul 29, 2013)
(since Jul 29, 2013)
No protections
LGBT people can be fired. As well not legally able to put on pride parades. Also intense violence.
Current status
(since Jul 1, 2003)
(since Jul 1, 2003)
Legal
Major-General of Medical Service Valery Kulikov stated that "the new statute about military and medical expertise from July 1, 2003 does not forbid people of non-standard sexual orientation from serving in the military." Also, in February of 2010, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated in an interview that gays are not banned from serving in the Russian armed forces.
Current status
(since Apr 16, 2008)
(since Apr 16, 2008)
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1997)
(since Jan 1, 1997)
Equal
The age of consent in Russia is 16 for both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples.
Current status
Not banned
Only in 2 place in Asia where it is criminalized.
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