
In early November, the TNT Music channel removed the rainbow from the GOD of Music K-POP group Seventeen. It may also be related to fear of getting a fine for violation of the law on the prohibition of demonstration of LGBT content.
The Supreme Court on November 30, at the suit of the Ministry of Justice, announced the “extremist” and banned the “international public movement of LGBT” in Russia. Such an organization does not exist, more precisely, did not exist - while the court was considering the lawsuit, activists registered a legal entity with the name that only they fell under extremism, and not all representatives of the LGBT in Russia. Nobody saw a decision of the Ministry of Justice, nor the decision of the Supreme Court. What exactly will become extremism now is unclear. By what principle of a person can be recognized as a participant in this “international movement” is unknown. What awaits human rights organizations that help representatives of LGBT, almost no one understands. Lawyer Maxim Olenichev, specializing in LGBT, answered The Insider to some of the main questions.
This is not the first such repressive law - in December 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the prohibition of “propaganda of LGBT”, including in the media. This article has already fined Start, Premier, MegaFon-TV, Kinopoisk services. In total, Roskomnadzor amounted to 33 protocols on online cinemas and television channels since the adoption of the law in Russia. There are no exact definitions in his text, and in fact, he concerns a person with any orientation. For example, people who openly talk about the unwillingness to have children can be attracted to it - Childfri. Read more - in the material " they will decide on the site of judges and police." According to the Gay-Propagand law, even Childfrey will be able to fine .