This legal opinion relates to Bill № 44554-6: Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences (establishing administrative responsibility for the promotion of homosexuality among minors) which was introduced by the Novosibirsk Oblast Legislative Assembly on 28 March 2012 and which received its First Reading on 25 January 2013. In this Legal Opinion, ERT demonstrates that the Bill violates a number of human rights provisions in treaties to which the Russian Federation is party, including notably the right to freedom of expression and the rights to equality and non-discrimination, as set out the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.