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The European Court of Human Rights recognized the Russian Law on the prohibition of propaganda of "non -traditional sexual relations" among minors to be discriminatory and violating the right to freedom of expression. The decision is published on the website of the ECHR.

The Strasbourg Court satisfied the complaints of LGBT activists Nikolai Baev, Alexei Kiselev and the founder of the movement of the Moscow gay pride Nikolai Alekseev. All of them were held in Russia to administrative liability of responsibility under a homophobic law, as well as in accordance with similar regional norms adopted in the Ryazan and Arkhangelsk regions and St. Petersburg.

The ECHR found that these laws violate Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of expression), as well as article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).

The court ordered Russia to pay the applicants a total of more than 49 thousand euros of compensation and legal costs.

The Russian Ministry of Justice said they intend to challenge the decision of the ECHR.

On June 30, 2013, Vladimir Putin signed a law on the prohibition of propaganda of "non -traditional sexual relations" among minors. Earlier, the document was approved by the State Duma in three readings and was supported by the Federation Council . The law prohibits the dissemination of information about the "attractiveness of non -traditional sexual relations" and "social equivalentness of traditional and non -traditional relations", as well as "imposing information that causes interest in such relations." The word "homosexuality", present in the early version of the document, was subsequently excluded from it.

The law establishes fines for citizens in the amount of 4-5 thousand rubles, for officials - from 40 to 50 thousand rubles. For legal entities, a fine of 800 thousand to 1 million rubles or suspension of activities for up to 90 days is provided for legal entities. For the same acts using the media or the Internet, a fine of 50 to 100 thousand rubles is expected for citizens, for officials - from 100 to 200 thousand, for legal entities - a fine of 1 million rubles or suspension of activities for up to 90 days.

For foreigners, in addition to fines, expulsion is provided outside the borders of Russia, which may be preceded by an arrest for up to 15 days.

During the discussion of the bill in the State Duma, opponents of discrimination were carried out by the building of the Lower Chamber of the Promotion Day of Kisses. The manifesto was delayed by the police; In addition, they were attacked by homophobes, including Orthodox activists.