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©Svetlana ZAVALINA
The lack of legislation problem
remains acute in Russia. According
to Family code of The Russian
Federation regulation of family
relations is executed following the
principle of voluntary union of
MAN and WOMEN,
co-parenting, equal rights of
spouses and so on. So, the queer
marriage is not supposed at
all, they don’t have rights and
obligations that straight couples
have. For example, homosexual
couples are not permitted to adopt
children together. But it is out in the
open for all to see that orphans
suffer lack of love and care, that
they can get in queer couples
too. One more example of outlaw
position of queers concerns the
case of the death of one of the
partners: the another one doesn`t
inherit community property if they
didn`t make a notarial will. Queers
are considered as to be strangers
for each other even in case of long
life together. As you can see not
all are equal before the law and
the court. For instance, the queer
couples legislation appeared in 1989
in Denmark, in 1993 in Norway, in
1994 in Sweden, in 2001 in Germany.
So in Europe Queer legislation
appeared long ago and in the
process of development now.
Under the Russian constitution, the
main law of the state, it is pointed
that the state guarantees the
equality of human and
civil rights