Online cinemas Premier, Start and the operator Megafon drew up protocols on “LGBT propaganda” among children

Moscow courts have received materials from administrative cases under the article on “LGBT propaganda” among minors (Part 2 of Article 6.21.2 of the Administrative Code) in relation to the online cinemas Premier , Start , as well as Megafon, a co-owner of the latter service and the owner of Megafon TV. . Mediazona drew attention to this.

The hearing on the administrative case of Premier LLC is scheduled for June 21 in the Meshchansky District Court, the protocol on PJSC Megafon is to be considered by the Tverskoy District Court on June 29. The Cheremushkinsky District Court received materials from the case against Start.Ru LLC , but the date of the hearing has not yet been set. Part 2 of Article 6.21.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses provides for fines from one to four million rubles.

Mediazona sent questions to the companies about the reasons for drawing up protocols on them, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.

Representatives of Start clarified to RBC that in their case, Roskomnadzor’s claims were caused by the film “Perfect Strangers” by Paolo Genovese, one of the heroines of which comes out in front of friends, and the age limit specified for the film. a member of Gazprom Media, The press service of Premier, declined to comment to the publication.

press service In the evening, the Start told TASS that the protocol was related to “incorrect age labeling,” which “has already been corrected.” The owner of the Megafon service also told the agency that “the shortcoming has been corrected.”

A few days ago it became known that a similar protocol was drawn up for the distribution film company “Russian Report”. “We confirm that on our Kinoliving TV channel there was a demonstration of the series “Made in Italy”, which, according to RKN, contained an LGBT scene,” noted TA Russian Reporting LLC .

Updated at 18:22 . comments Added Start and Premier .

Updated at 10:03 p.m. Added comment from Start about age labeling.