Since the beginning of the summer, Magistrates’ Court No. 374 in Tagansky District, Moscow, has received 10 protocols against Ivan Kvast under the “LGBT propaganda” article (Art. 6.21 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona drew attention to this.
Kvast was fined under three protocols on 26 June and 29 July (1, 2, 3), and one of these decisions has already been published. In the court document, Kvast, a Moscow resident, is described as a project manager for “Mangaliba.” This particular protocol was issued over a comic about “the young revolutionary Utena,” for which he was fined 400,000 roubles (about US$4,400). The outcome of the other two protocols is unknown.
Seven out of the ten protocols were received by the court on 29 July, and two more on 2 July.
This summer, four protocols were also drawn up against the legal entity “MangaLiba” for “LGBT propaganda” (1, 2, 3, 4). All of them are scheduled for review on 25 August, with 10 minutes allocated for each case, according to the case records.
“MangaLib” is an online platform and mobile app where users can read comics in the manga, manhwa and manhua genres in Russian. In June, the service gained a new co-owner: Boris Makarenkov, the head of the Russian entity of the Storytel platform and a co-owner of “Litnet.”
Asya Sokolova for OVD-Info
The adoption of the “LGBT propaganda” law marked not only widespread censorship but also intensified repression against LGBTQ people and the organisations that support them. With the designation of the “International LGBT Movement” as an “extremist organisation,” this pressure has increased once again.
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