Radio Free Europe, October 21, 2013
A draft
bill that would have stripped gay couples of their children has been withdrawn
from the agenda of the Russian parliament.
Russian
lawmaker Aleksei Zhuravlyov of the ruling United Russia party said the bill
will be resubmitted for debate to Russia's State Duma after changes are
introduced.
He did not
elaborate.
The draft
was submitted to the State Duma last month.
The head of
the State Duma committee on family, women, and children, Yelena Mizulina, said
earlier that it was unlikely that the proposed bill would be adopted as it
would have been impossible to implement because of the difficulty in
identifying parents with "nontraditional sexual orientations."
Russia has
been under criticism for its controversial law adopted earlier this year that
bans "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" among
minors."
Based on
reporting by RIA-Novosti and Interfax
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