The Independent Article RatingBelarus seeks to copy neighboring Russia's repressive LGBTQ+ policies, activists say
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50% : "They openly told us that if it is banned in Russia, then it should be banned in Belarus too."Belarus decriminalized homosexuality in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the deeply conservative country under authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko doesn't recognize same-sex marriages, and there are no laws protecting LGBTQ+ rights.Russian President Vladimir Putin adopted repressive laws curtailing LGBTQ+ rights in recent years, and close ally Belarus is poised to follow suit, proposing legislation to ban "gay propaganda."*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.