RUSSIA DRAFT PENAL CODE OMITS BAN ON GAY SEX

The draft legislation on sexual offences in the new Russian Penal Code published by the Ministry of Justice in mid-January 1992 does not ontain anything equivalent to the notorious absolute prohibition of homosexual acts. Art. 121.1 of the Penal Code of the Soviet Union. The new texts prohibiting sexual acts in the absence of consent or with persons aged under 14 or 16 apply equally to homosexual and heterosexual acts.

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