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The Moskvy Tagan Court of the case was received by the case under the article on "Propaganda of LGBT+" Part 3 of Art. 6.21 Code of Administrative Offenses in relation to KinoPoisk. They paid attention to this "Caution, news." The service faces a fine of one to four million rubles or an administrative suspension of activity.
This is the first famous protocol under this article, drawn up for streaming service. Online cinemas are often fined according to another article-about " Demonstration Art. 6.21.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of LGBT+ among minors ”, as a rule, for the lack of marking“ 18+ ”on films in which there is LGBT+ relationships or characters. In 2023, Kinopoisk was fined for “demonstration” for 3 million rubles.
Anti-LGBT+ legislation in Russia
After Russia decriminalized voluntary same -sex relations in 1993, the first restriction 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.
On November 30, 2023, the Supreme Court recognized the “International LGBT movement” by an extremist organization.