Russian MPs are not the first to try to write LGBT people out of video games | Keza MacDonald

Fifa 17 is the latest target. But increasingly games reflect the world as it is - not as reactionaries would like it to be

In 2013, Russia's parliament unanimously passed a law forbidding "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations", essentially making it illegal to distribute any material on gay relationships or gay rights via the internet or any other kind of media, or to hold gay pride marches or rallies.

The move led to an immediate rise in homophobic hate crime. So far, targets have included Ikea (for the crime of including gay couples in its catalogue), sports events run by LGBT-friendly organisations, and perhaps most famously, the Sochi Olympics.

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