According to the RBC News Agency, the Russian Duma’s Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building has rejected a bill which would have made coming out to young people and same-sex couples kissing in public punishable with jail sentences.
The bill, introduced by Ivan Nikitchuk, a Communist party MP, would have punished people with a 5,000 ruble fine or up to two weeks in prison.
Pink News reported that the agency said the committee rejected the legislation “primarily due to the fact that from a formal legal perspective, the bill was illiterate.”
