TV channel fined for LGBT+ “propaganda” over music video

A Russian court fined a TV channel for “propaganda” LGBT+, Friday December 1, because of a music video. This conviction, the exact date of which is not specified, was made public the day after the ban in the country of “international LGBT movement” For “extremism”in the midst of a conservative offensive targeting these communities.

The music channel AIVA was ordered to pay 500,000 rubles (around 5,000 euros at the current rate) for broadcasting the video for the song Tak krassivo (“So beautiful” in French) dating from 2017 and performed by Sergei Lazarev, a star in Russia who represented his country twice at Eurovision. This clip shows two hands “caressing” and which seem to belong to “two people of the same sex”according to their “features” physical, explains the Saint Petersburg court in a press release, citing the minutes.

This condemnation comes in a context of toughening repression against LGBT+ people, with Russia positioning itself as the standard bearer of “traditional” values ​​in the face of the supposed decadence of the West. The last decade has seen their rights drastically limited, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, supported by the Orthodox Church.