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2023: Fine of 1 million rubles for LGBT demonstration

On July 12, 2023, the Basmanny Court of Moscow fined Fonbet TV 1 million rubles for demonstrating LGBT content among minors. The owner of the TNT Music TV channel was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 2 of Article 6.21.2 of the Administrative Code ("Dissemination among minors of information demonstrating unconventional sexual relations and (or) preferences or capable of causing minors to want to change gender").

According to TASS, the protocol on Fonbet TV was drawn up due to the lack of "18 +" marking on the video of Summer Really Hurt Us by singer Alma. It showcases the kiss of two girls.

The court fined Fonbet TV 1 million rubles for demonstrating LGBT people

ALMA (Alma-Sofia Miettinen) is a 27-year-old the Finnish "body positive" singer-songwriter who is a member of the national version of the Idol show. She released her debut album in 2020. Summer Really Hurt Us is her single released in 2022, which entered the charts Germany Finland and climbed to the first line of the charts. Austria

In the second quarter of 2023, 33 protocols were drawn up for demonstrating and promoting non-traditional sexual relations, including in relation to large online cinemas, said Alexander Khinshtein, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications, in June 2023.

Since the end of 2022, Russia has had a law prohibiting the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences" among Russians of all ages and the dissemination of information "capable of causing a desire to change gender" in adolescents. The law also allowed Roskomnadzor to include resources that disseminate prohibited information in the unified register of prohibited information for subsequent blocking.^[1]

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