{"id":35772,"date":"2013-09-20T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=35772"},"modified":"2013-09-20T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:08:01","slug":"putin-says-no-discrimination-of-gays-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=35772","title":{"rendered":"Putin Says No Discrimination of Gays in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/vladimir-putin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-35770\" alt=\"vladimir putin (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/vladimir-putin-1.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/vladimir-putin-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/vladimir-putin-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/vladimir-putin-1-422x300.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a>President Vladimir Putin denied Thursday that gays face discrimination in Russia, saying that a new law that has drawn protests worldwide does not infringe on their rights.<\/p>\n<p>Putin on Thursday maintained that the law bans only &#8220;propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors.&#8221; He argued that it is &#8220;no infringement on the rights of sexual minorities&#8221; and insisted that European laws allowing gay marriage contribute to population declines.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian law has prompted calls for boycotts of the 2014 Winter Olympics hosted by Russia in Sochi.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said while some European nations have allowed gay marriages, &#8220;the Europeans are dying out &#8230; and gay marriages don&#8217;t produce children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you want to survive by accepting immigrants?&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;Society can&#8217;t absorb such a number of immigrants. Let us make our own choice, as we see it for our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin denied Thursday that gays face discrimination in Russia, saying that a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[13843],"class_list":["post-35772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","tag-russia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}