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blsr-12353	Vazquez Loriga, Daniela	LGBT Rights in Russia: The ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law and Its Consequences in Chechnya	2020	14	.pdf	application/pdf	4563	209	43	Moreover, the European Court of Human Rights saw an increase in Russian LGBT litigation from 2.1% in 2002 to 22.5% in 2007.9 By 2017, the Levada Center, a Russian polling organization, also found that 81% of the Russian public disapproved of same-sex relationships.10 Furthermore, 63% of respondents in a 2018 government-run poll believed that the spread of “gay propaganda” was destroying the traditional Russian values.11 This apparent near-uniformity in public opinion is the Russian government’s typical defense of the gay propaganda law, thus claiming that the State protects the traditional values of Russia through its legal enforcement. “Chechnya LGBT:	cache/blsr-12353.pdf	txt/blsr-12353.txt