Vladimir Putin, in among accusing the West of stoking an international warfare to wreck Russia, took the time to mock LGBTQ+ rights.

All Over his rambling hours-lengthy state-of-the-country cope with, the Russian president cast his u . s . a . because the victim of Western double-crossing.

Russia – not Ukraine, he stated – are those preventing for survival.

The marathon speech has for decades set the tone for the yr in advance and as of late got here ahead of the only-12 months anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine struggle on Friday.

However Putin advised participants of each homes of Russia’s parliament, the Federal Assembly, in Moscow today how a few of the us of a’s enemies are LGBTQ+ other folks.

In an extended-winded digression, Putin warned that Russians face a nearly existential risk from ‘corrupt Western values’ like marriage equality.

‘The West publicizes that perversions together with paedophilia, are a part of the norm, destroys its values, calls on priests to bless related-intercourse marriages,’ he said.