There is a law which the Western media call anti-gay, and I think that a gay should be offended because of this label, and not because of the law. In fact the law says: "there should be no gay propaganda towards the minors". So the Western media assume that being a gay means automatically to be eager proselytizing among the minors? That's why recently Putin said: "The homosexuals are welcome in our country, we only have the law against paedophilia and against gay propaganda towards the minors".
The real problem here is that Putin isn't a good politician. He may be a good statesmen but he can't sell it to the world.
There are similar laws actively being enforced in Arizona, Texas, Alabama and Utah against gay propaganda to minors.
Moreover, in Russia the law carries a >80% approval rating of the people. In the U.S. the same laws carry a < 50% approval rating.
If Putin was more of a politician, he would go up on stage and read the laws of the U.S. to the press, pointing the finger back at the U.S. and saying that the U.S. is doing the exact same thing - the only difference is that the U.S. is doing it
without consent of the populous. There are lots of U.S. talkshow hosts that would just love to prance on a story like this.
not thrilled with russia 
