- Homosexuality
- ⚢Varies by Region
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ Other punishment
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Banned
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Varies by Region
Public Opinion
Research in attittudes towards LGBTQ+ issues in Russia have identified a strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, reflecting underlying homophobic sentiments.
Russia Surveys
Orthodox Christian Support for Church's Position of Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Marriage
Support for Same-Sex Marriage
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 3 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Russia.
Overall
Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Homosexual activity in Russia is varies by region.
On November 30, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, according to the court's decision, this does not concern the private life of LGBT people, but more concerns LGBT activists, it is also prohibited to use LGBT symbols and demonstrate them. It is not forbidden to make a coming out. This is accurate information, as the data has been studied in ILGA and this statement by LGBT human rights organizations and lawyers.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Russia is other punishment.
“Under the new law, which still needs the approval of the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin, any action or information that is considered an attempt to promote homosexuality - whether in public, online, or in films, books or advertising - could incur a heavy fine.”
After recognizing the LGBT movement as extremist in Russia, the government put more pressure on activists than on the private lives of LGBT people themselves. This has completely limited the freedom of expression for LGBT people. After recognizing LGBT as extremist, the demonstration of the LGBT flag became prohibited and because of this, you can get a fine of up to 2000 rubles or arrest for up to 15 days, and if you repeat the demonstration, criminal liability in the form of imprisonment for up to 4 years. However, imprisonment is applied only in case of demonstration of LGBT symbols, for everything else people are punished with fines.
Right to change legal gender in Russia is illegal.
Gender-Affirming Care in Russia is banned.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Russia is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Russia is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Russia is no protections.
orientation or gender identity. Several prominent people including a TV news anchor have been fired for coming out, although some people have successfully challenged discriminatory dismissal.
LGBT housing discrimination in Russia is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Russia is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Russia is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Russia is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Russia is legal.
Conversion therapy in Russia is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Russia is varies by region.
LGBT Rights by Administrative Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual administrative region of Russia.
- Amurskaya oblast'
- Arkhangel'skaya oblast'
- Astrakhanskaya oblast'
- Belgorodskaya oblast'
- Bryanskaya oblast'
- Chelyabinskaya oblast'
- Irkutskaya oblast'
- Ivanovskaya oblast'
- Kaliningradskaya oblast'
- Kaluzhskaya oblast'
- Kemerovskaya oblast'
- Kirovskaya oblast'
- Kostromskaya oblast'
- Kurganskaya oblast'
- Kurskaya oblast'
- Leningradskaya oblast'
- Lipetskaya oblast'
- Magadanskaya oblast'
- Moskovskaya oblast'
- Murmanskaya oblast'
- Nizhegorodskaya oblast'
- Novgorodskaya oblast'
- Novosibirskaya oblast'
- Omskaya oblast'
- Orenburgskaya oblast'
- Orlovskaya oblast'
- Penzenskaya oblast'
- Pskovskaya oblast'
- Rostovskaya oblast'
- Ryazanskaya oblast'
- Sakhalinskaya oblast'
- Samarskaya oblast'
- Saratovskaya oblast'
- Smolenskaya oblast'
- Sverdlovskaya oblast'
- Tambovskaya oblast'
- Tomskaya oblast'
- Tul'skaya oblast'
- Tverskaya oblast'
- Tyumenskaya oblast'
- Ul'yanovskaya oblast'
- Vladimirskaya oblast'
- Volgogradskaya oblast'
- Vologodskaya oblast'
- Voronezhskaya oblast'
- Yaroslavskaya oblast'
- Adygeya, Respublika (Republic)
- Altay, Respublika (Republic)
- Bashkortostan, Respublika (Republic)
- Buryatiya, Respublika (Republic)
- Chechnya (Republic)
- Chuvashskaya Respublika (Republic)
- Dagestan, Respublika (Republic)
- Ingushskaya Respublika (Republic)
- Kabardino-Balkarskaya Respublika (Republic)
- Kalmykiya, Respublika (Republic)
- Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika (Republic)
- Kareliya, Respublika (Republic)
- Khakasiya, Respublika (Republic)
- Komi, Respublika (Republic)
- Mariy El, Respublika (Republic)
- Mordoviya, Respublika (Republic)
- Sakha, Respublika (Republic)
- Severnaya Osetiya, Respublika (Republic)
- Tatarstan, Respublika (Republic)
- Tyva, Respublika (Republic)
- Udmurtskaya Respublika (Republic)
- Altayskiy kray (Administrative Territory)
- Kamchatskaya oblast' (Administrative Territory)
- Khabarovskiy kray (Administrative Territory)
- Krasnodarskiy kray (Administrative Territory)
- Krasnoyarskiy kray (Administrative Territory)
- Perm (Administrative Territory)
- Primorskiy kray (Administrative Territory)
- Stavropol'skiy kray (Administrative Territory)
- Zabajkal'skij kraj (Administrative Territory)
- Chukotskiy avtonomnyy okrug (Autonomous District)
- Khanty-Mansiyskiy avtonomnyy okrug [Yugra] (Autonomous District)
- Nenetskiy avtonomnyy okrug (Autonomous District)
- Yamalo-Nenetskiy avtonomnyy okrug (Autonomous District)
- Moskva (Autonomous City)
- Sankt-Peterburg (Autonomous City)
- Komi-Permyak ()
- Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast' (Autonomous Region)