The Russian online store Megamarket has removed from sale over 250 books running afoul of the law prohibiting "LGBT propaganda." Source: BBC News Russia, citing Kommersant media The list includes works by world-renowned authors such as Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Stefan Zweig, and others.
The Russian Duma has asked the media monitoring agency Roskomnadzor to officially declare that there is no link between rainbows and the LGBT community. Source: Russian news agency TASS Details: Vladislav Davankov, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament), noted that there has been an increase in cases of citizens complaining to law enforcement agencies about LGBT propaganda after seeing an image of a rainbow.
Scholastic was poised to provide elementary schools with the option of whether or not to expose children to a special collection containing some works of identitarian and LGBT propaganda. Following weeks of pressure from activist groups keen on depriving schools across the nation of such a choice,.
The chief executive of Nasdaq-listed internet company Yandex faces prosecution in a Russian court for alleged offences under the country’s so-called “LGBT propaganda” law, a notice on the court's website said on Wednesday. The move to prosecute Artem Savinovsky, for which no hearing date was listed, comes a day after a different court levied a 1 million rubles ($11,048) fine against an online film database owned by Yandex under the same law. When contacted by Reuters, Yandex said it would appeal any court finding against its CEO.