HSE student Ilya Andreev deducted in protest against anti-LGBT+ legislation

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Ilya Andreev, a student at the Higher School of Media Management, wrote an application for deductions in protest against anti-LGBT+ legislation. The text of the application is given by the student edition of the Thunderstorm. In it, Andreev writes that he does not want to study at a university that is controlled by the Russian government, and in the budget place that they sponsor.

“In particular, due to inciting hatred of a certain social group and from the federal authorities and state propaganda of xenophobia among citizens, especially the persecution of sexual orientation, as well as“ medieval ”discrimination and recognition of me by decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation as an extremist, as a Quir-Persons (open gay) and the supporting representative of the international social movement of LGBTK+ in Russia, I in Russia, I in Russia, I I refuse to continue training, ”Andreev told the university leadership.

In early December, Andreev refused to make the youth media, which the state grant won. He explained that he decided to do this "for ideological reasons and for the reasons for the legislation, which is adopted in the territory of the Russian Federation."

Anti-LGBT+ legislation in Russia

• After Russia decriminalized voluntary same -sex relations in 1993, the first restriction of the rights of LGBT+ people was the order of the Ministry of Health from 2001, which forbade homosexual men to become blood donors. Human rights: TsAM managed to cancel this ban in 2008.

• Since 2006, regional prohibitions on LGBT+ propaganda among minors began to appear. In 2006, such a law adopted the Ryazan region, and in 2011-2013 - Arkhangelsk, Kostroma, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Samara, Vladimir, Irkutsk regions, Petersburg, Bashkortostan and Krasnodar Territory. In the Kaliningrad region, the law adopted in early 2013 forbade LGBT+ propaganda among both children and adults.

• In the summer of 2013, the State Duma adopted the law Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses on the ban “LGBT+ propaganda” among minors already at the federal level.

• At the end of 2022, the Law on LGBT+ Propaganda was tightened, which also banned it among adults. The State Duma also introduced a new ban Article 6.21.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses to the Administrative Code - “Demonstrations of LGBT+” by minors.

• In the summer of 2023, the State Duma adopted a law on the ban on the transgender transition and the change of gender marker in the documents.