A harsher law than Russia's was killed off today
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Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Council has struck down a controversial law that would have outlawed “propaganda” of homosexuality to minors, amid signs the legislation was damaging the country’s bid to host the Winter Olympics. The law was “not in line with the constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan” the Vlast.kz website quoted the Constitutional Council (which rules on the legality of legislation) as saying. The law governed “the protection of children from information causing damage to their health and development." It was passed by parliament in February. The council struck down the law because of unclear wording rather than human rights concerns, the Vlast.kz report said. The announcement came after a group of household-name sports stars urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reject Kazakhstan’s bid to host the Winter Games in Almaty in 2022, arguing that the law outlawing the “propaganda” of homosexuality to minors was incompatible with Olympic principles of equality.
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http://www.eurasianet.org/node/73606
It's only between Kazakhstan and China for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The decision is on July 31st.
Even if they wanted to, they couldn't have moved out of Sochi 2014 because Russia's law was passed in Spring 2013, but it's looks like from now on they want to avoid bad press. They added LGBT to the Olympic Charter following the fallout.
(it's a propaganda-lite), but EU is telling her to clean up ha act 
