Putin instructed the Russian health ministry to create a separate psychiatric institute for the study of LGBT people, as well as a number of other “behavioral areas, including social behavior.”

This was stated by the Russian health minister Mikhail Murashko in response to the question of the Russian MP, journalist/freak Anatoly Wasserman during the first reading in the State Duma of the draft law on prohibiting transgender transition. Such an institute will be created on the basis of Serbsky State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry.

Wasserman asked if the Ministry of Health is working on research on "psychological and, if necessary, psychiatric methods” of bringing gender roles of LGBT people “in line with reality.”

This may mean that research work is underway in Russia to introduce conversion therapy – a set of psychological and physical practices that are aimed at “correcting” a person’s sexual orientation and gender identity.