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The Soviet District Court of Samara decided to fine US citizen Jim Malkuhi, the pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church, 2 thousand rubles and expel him from Russia. This was reported by the Department of Internal Affairs of the INFO with reference to the lawyer Oksana Berezovskaya, who represented the interests of the American in court.

Malkuhi declared guilty under part 2 of Article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (the mismatch of the declared purpose of the arrival of actual actions to Russia). It was considered proven that the American, having entered the country on a tourist visa, led teaching.

Berezovskaya insisted that Malkhi, who had previously arrived in Samara, did not give lectures, but met with friends. However, her arguments were ignored.

Thus, the meeting with the LGBT entrusting, which the American planned to hold on July 16 in Moscow, is disrupted.

The decision was made late in the evening on Saturday. After the trial, the Malkehs were brought to the hotel. As can be concluded from the publication of the OTD-Info, they do not put the American in a special cost and he will have to leave Russia independently.

The pastor was detained on Saturday at the Komyuniti Center during a meeting with LGBT entrusting. Four security officials broke into the room, one of whom introduced himself as a district police officer. Visiters had two video cameras. Malkuhi was taken to the OP "Sovetsky", and from there after drawing up the protocol - to the court.

At the same time, the police did not allow mulkehi, a patient with diabetes, to call in a hotel for medicines, so in court the American felt bad. Berezovskaya sought to transfer the proceedings to Monday, but she was refused.

The metropolitan communal church is one of the most tolerant of the LGBT community of religious organizations. She spent the first rite of wedding of the same -sex couple back in 1969.

In the past two years, foreigners, in particular US citizens, are regularly detained in Russia, under the pretext of violation of their stay in the country. So, at the end of May, a student of Kazan University was expelled by American Yang Bonner , who wrote a diploma of the Chechen war. He was also accused of violation of migration legislation, saying that he worked as a tutor in English, without having permission to work in Russia.