“They call again today at the Foreign Ministry.

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)”, RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

At the end of November, Stepanov was summoned to the Canadian Foreign Ministry to express his disagreement with the way the diplomatic mission commented on the new LGBT law.

On November 24, the State Duma of Russia adopted a law banning LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and gender reassignment in advertising, books, films and the media, as well as including such information on the list of prohibited information for children.