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FIFA 17 could be banned in Russia because it violate Russia’s gay propaganda

FIFA 17 is an upcoming association football video game in the FIFA series, scheduled to be released on 27 September 2016 in North America and 29 September 2016 for the rest of the world, landing platform for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. This will be the first FIFA game in the series to use the Frostbite game engine. It has achieved great success after its release. But now there are something bad happened. Russia MPs alleged FIFA 17 has went against Ruassia’s gay propaganda law. At the beginning of this thing, EA Sports introduced a rainbow kit into the game to back the Rainbow Laces campaign, which was started by LGBT rights charity Stonewall and supports the community in sport.
 
Then ommunist MPs are now pushing for a ban on FIFA 17, arguing that it violates Russia’s law against gay propaganda because it “invites users to support the English football premier league’s Rainbow Laces action, a massive campaign in support of LGBT”. Russia introduced the controversial gay propaganda law in 2013, which is “for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating for a Denial of Traditional Family Values”.
 
It faced backlash worldwide and has been condemned by several organisations, including the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. It prohibits anyone from coming out in public or supporting LBGT people in public, holding Pride parades, saying that LGBT relationships are the same as heterosexual relationships.
 
MPs from President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party and the Communist Party sent a letter to authorities, urging them to take action because propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations can cause “harm to children’s health and development”. It said: “The FIFA multiplatform video game, developed by EA Canada, invites users to support the action of the English Premier League’s “Rainbow shoelaces” action – a large-scale campaign in support of the LGBT community. “Meanwhile, according to the law the ‘protection of children from information harmful to their health and development’…includes information that promotes non-traditional sexual relations.”