The State Duma, the lower house of the Moscow parliament, will discuss a bill to recognize feminism as an “extremist ideology,” Russian media reported.

The project was submitted to the parliament by the deputy chairman of the committee on information policy, information technologies and communications of the State Duma Oleg Matveitsev.

He justified the initiative by the fact that almost all the leaders of feminist organizations in Russia spoke out against the “special operation in Ukraine” launched by Vladimir Putin, and that their various groups, “working in social networks, spread lies about the Russian Armed Forces.” Forces”.

“All feminists in the West are anti-Putin, anti-Russia and pro-war. Feminists in Ukraine generally said that true feminism is for women to serve alongside men against the Russians. Our feminists are simply agents of the West,” said the Russian deputy.

Continuing his tirade against feminists in Russia, he stated that they “are engaged in the destruction of traditional values” and that “their activities contradict the presidential decree on the support of traditional values.”

They are “for divorce, for the absence of children, for abortions. They act against the demographic policy of the Russian Federation,” the Russian deputy concluded.

The Russian press accuses Daria Trepova of “radical feminism”

Matveitsev noted that the draft law is currently being examined by the Investigative Commission on Foreign Intervention in Russia’s Internal Affairs and, in the event of a positive conclusion, will be put to a vote.

The announcement was made in the context of the fact that some Russian websites wrote that Daria Trepova, accused of murdering military blogger Vladlen Tatarskyi, is a supporter of radical feminism.

Trepova was arrested on Monday and taken in for questioning on charges of giving Tatarsky a figurine with an explosive device that caused the detonation that Tatarsky killed and injured dozens of people in a St. Petersburg bar.

Russia blames the Ukrainian special forces and the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Oleksiy Navalny for the terrorist attack, and Trepova was only its executor.

26-year-old Trepova claims that she did not know that the statuette contained explosives and gave it to Tatarsky at the request of someone else.