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Since winning a third term in 2012, Putin has become ever more autocratic, and his antigay ideology ever more extreme. In June 2013, he signed the infamous antigay propaganda bill that criminalizes the “distribution of information…aimed at the formation among minors of nontraditional sexual attitudes,” with nontraditional meaning anything other than heterosexual. Individual violators are fined anywhere between $120 and $150, while NGOs and corporations can incur fines as high as $30,000. International outrage flared in the months before the Sochi Olympics, in response to which Putin reassured the gay and lesbian community they had nothing to fear as long as they left Russia’s children in peace.
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Each year, The Advocate magazine selects one person who has had the greatest influence on LGBT people as its Person of the Year. Much like TIME magazine’s award of the same name, the recipient doesn’t have to be an advocate for LGBT people, or even a good human being; it’s given to the person who was most influential in the LGBT community in the past year.
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