“I don’t know what’s going on in the head and other parts of the body of VTsIOM functionaries if they spread such nonsense ... I don’t doubly understand what these tantrums have to do with sociology ... I hope that VTsIOM CEO Valery Fedorov will be able to explain his position” , he wrote.

According to Khinshtein, according to all polls, the authorities' initiatives to ban LGBT propaganda are supported by the majority of Russians.

Earlier, a proposal was published on the VTsIOM Telegram channel to call the document “a law on encouraging the emigration of creative people,” since “all sexually “wrong” people will go where there is no need to hide.”

On November 11, State Duma deputies Nina Ostanina and Nikolai Burlyaev proposed introducing criminal liability for repeated violations of the ban on LGBT propaganda through the media with a penalty of up to two years in prison.

On November 21, the State Duma Committee on Information Policy recommended that the lower house of the Russian parliament reject an amendment banning LGBT people, pornography, violence and cruelty in video games.