In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, coverage of the art festival “The Color of Saffron” was unofficially banned
In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, local media and blogs refused to cover the Color of Saffron activist art festival. One of the journalists referred to a direct ban on writing about it, according to Anna, the mother of LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova. Several city media and bloggers who were sent information about the "Color of Saffron" festival ignored this event. And one of the local journalists, in a personal conversation with Anna, said that he had a direct ban "from above" to write about the festival.