Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attend a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, November 12. Pavel Bednyakov/Reuters

Kazakhstan’s lower parliament pushed ahead with anti-LGBTQ legislation Wednesday that appears to mirror Russian law, as the country’s president met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

The new measures would ban the “dissemination of information containing propaganda of pedophilia and/or non-traditional sexual orientation” in public spaces, through media or online, the parliament, known as the Mäjilis, said in a press statement.

This proposed ban is designed to “protect children from content harmful to their health and development,” according to the statement.

The package of legislation would

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