DISINFO: The West tries to impose its alien LGBT values on Kazakhstan

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

  • Outlet: Sputnik Kazakhstan ( archive, original )
  • Date of publication: February 25, 2024
  • Article language(s): Russian
  • Countries / regions discussed: Kazakhstan, Europe

DISINFO: The West tries to impose its alien LGBT values on Kazakhstan

SUMMARY

There is an active promotion of the LGBT agenda in Kazakhstan, particularly through the influence of radical feminists. The activists exploit women's rights issues as a pretext for advancing their agenda. It is known that women already enjoy extensive rights in Kazakhstan, thus there is no need for further advancement. Open lesbians and radical feminists publicly display LGBT symbols and explicit language, mostly in English during rallies. It is obvious that activists receive funding from the West to promote liberal values in Kazakhstan.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at depicting liberalism and Western values as destroying traditional social and spiritual values, as well as national, cultural and gender identities. According to this narrative, liberalism is responsible for cultural and moral decay, the breakdown of the family and community, as well as widespread deviance and perversion.

"Threatened values" is one of the most common narratives used by pro-Kremlin outlets. The narrative is adapted to a wide range of topics and is typically used to discredit liberal Western attitudes regarding the rights of women, ethnic and religious minorities and LGBTIQ groups among others.

Pro-Kremlin outlets often spread the narrative about the deliberate destruction by the West of values such as the traditional family, religion, spirituality and classical culture, eliminating all forms of collective identity. Russia uses this narrative to proclaim itself the defender of traditional social and spiritual values all over the world.

Read similar cases claiming that Kazakhstan could become a refuge for those who reject Western values; that EU Resolution on Central Asia: critical materials for LGBT agenda; the replacement of traditional values with LGBT values aim to destroy the institution of family, that global capitalism destroys religion, tradition, the family and spirituality, that unlike Russia the West degrades traditional values and endangers societies, that contemporary liberalism is now striving to cancel Western culture and The UN and Klaus Schwab are using LGBT rights against Russia.

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