The court found “LGBT propaganda” in Nikolai Baskov’s video due to the “relationship of the lyrical hero with a male person” Editorial “Layout” December 20, 2023 | “The relationship of the lyrical hero” with another man “contains communicative signs of a romantic interpersonal relationship” The Tagansky Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 1 million rubles on the Tochka TV channel under the article on “LGBT propaganda” for showing Nikolai Baskov’s video “The Wanderer”.

“I didn’t feel like a guy - and I didn’t want to be a girl” Editorial “Layout” December 20, 2023 | A story about people who considered themselves transgender but changed their minds An unobvious result of the ban on “gender reassignment” in Russia is the lack of room for error. Thousands of transgender people around the world are detransitioning—that is, going back. The new Russian legislation simply ignores this phenomenon.