by Will Stewart, Daily Mail:

• A pro-Putin political party has produced new legislation which is under review
• Belarus has already moved to use castration against convicted child sex offenders

Russia is moving towards forced chemical castration of paedophiles, a system already operating in neighbouring Kazakhstan.

A pro-Putin political party in Moscow has produced new legislation which is under review by the government.

Russian ally Belarus has already moved to use such a method of castration against convicted child sex offenders.