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In relation to those who have concluded in Denmark, Russians Yevgeny Voitskhovsky and Pavel Stotsko have been instituted administrative cases of deliberate damage to documents. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the metropolitan police.

"In relation to men who initiated the introduction of citizens of the Russian Federation to their passports not provided for by applicable legislation, cases of administrative offenses provided for in Article 19.16 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (intentional damage to the identity of the citizen) were opened. As part of the production of passports, the passports are subject to withdrawal to familiarization with the materials and further exchange in the established manner," - The message says. As a punishment under article 19.16, a warning or fine of 100 to 300 rubles is provided.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, the police arrived in the apartment in the Lyubertsy, where Voitsakhovsky and Stotko were located. They did not call the purpose of the visit. Men refused to open the door, after which the police turned off the electricity and the Internet in the apartment, the Russian LGBT network reports .

On Thursday, Voitskhovsky and Stotsko stated on the air of Rain that the multifunctional center in Moscow confirmed their marriage. On the basis of the marriage certificate issued in Denmark, the appropriate stamps were placed in the passports of men. According to the Russians, the marriage took about five minutes and passed "without a bitch, without a bitch." As noted, this was the first case of a single -sex marriage known in Russia.

The next day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs recognized the passports of Voitskhovsky and Stotsko invalid . The department promised to dismiss an employee of the MFC, who issued the recognition of a single -sex union, as well as its immediate supervisor. The actions of officials are being checked.

According to Article 158 of the Family Code, the marriages of Russians concluded abroad are recognized in the absence of circumstances listed in Article 14 of the Code: close kinship, incapacity, finding one of the partners in an already registered marriage. Unions between adoptive parents and adopted are also prohibited. The Code is not said about the ban on recognition of same -sex marriages abroad. There is no direct definition of marriage in the law, however, Article 1 of the Code mentions "The voluntaryness of the marriage union of a man and a woman."

Russian LGBT activists have repeatedly tried to register same-sex marriages, but the registry offices have always refused to recognize such unions. In the future, the courts recognized the actions of officials as legitimate.