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A pensioner fined over 13-year-old reposts. A Catholic priest banned from Russia for 50 years. Mediazona documents how a rainbow flag in any context, even a hostile one, is enough. For queer Russians, the lesson is darker than the irony.
Daniil Neonov posted a campaign video in a shirt reading 'LOVE' in rainbow letters. A Moscow court ruled it 'extremist,' gave him the maximum sentence, and barred him from running again.
A Russian court branded Parni+ 'extremist' in April, scattering its journalists across Georgia, Montenegro, Turkey, Spain, and beyond. They're still reporting, from wherever they've landed.
A Russian schoolboy showed classmates a video. Three years after the Kremlin declared the 'international LGBT movement' extremist, that was enough to put him on a juvenile offender registry and threaten his removal from school.
A regional Russian outlet was hit with an 'LGBT propaganda' fine over a review of the hockey drama Heated Rivalry — the clearest sign yet that Russia is policing cultural criticism, not just content.
