Vladimir Putin awarded the Chairman of the Committee on the Legislation of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly of the Unicorn Vitaly Milonov Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the II degree. The corresponding decree dated September 8 is placed on Sunday on the official portal of legal information.

As stated in the decree, the award Milonov was awarded "for active legislative activity and many years of conscientious work."

Milonov is known for his obscurantist initiatives. Only from the beginning of this year, he spoke, in particular, with a demand to oblige the producers of the film "Leviathan" , so that they return the money received to shoot the picture to the budget, a denunciation to the FSB to the Church of Scientologists , a proposal to develop the concept of protecting the information space of Russia from the ideology of the West, and the call to block the Facebook for "propaganda of homosexuality" , the idea of creating a patriotic children's organization .

Milonov is also known for provocations at the events of the LGBT community . In addition, Unitedos is associated with Orthodox militants. His assistant as a deputy is the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the People’s Cathedral Anatoly Artyukh .

Obscurantism in the square