Chairman of the St. Petersburg legislature's committee for legislation Vitaly Milonov, who is also the author of the city law banning gay propaganda, said the similar federal law should apply to the guests and athletes of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
"I haven't heard the government's commentaries, but I know that the
government acts in compliance with Russian laws. If a law has been
passed by parliament and signed by the president, the government has no
right or powers to reverse it," Milonov told Interfax on Sunday on
reports that the federal law banning homosexual propaganda will not be
applied to foreign participants in the Sochi Olympics.
"Any normal athlete, or sport fan arrives to support his team and to
watch sport events in their splendor, not to violate the laws of the
hosting country," he said.
The Olympic Games have already aroused queries, he said.
"Enormous funding is being put into preparations for the sake of
enhancing the prestige of sport competitions and encouraging young
people to go to sport centers and skating rinks, and to play football
instead of running to Bosco's to get a jumpsuit with the label 'Russia.'
Or, when I see the terrible signboard saying that McDonald\'s is the
official chain of restaurants picked for the 2014 Games, I wonder:
Hasn't Russia an organization that can put a chop on a slice of bread?"
he said.
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