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| Region | Kaliningradskaya oblast' |
| Issue | Censorship of LGBT issues |
| Status | Fine as punishment |
| Start Date | Jan 24, 2013 |
| End Date | Jun 10, 2013 |
| Description | In January 2013, the Regional Duma of Kaliningrad banned "homosexual propaganda". It was reported that this wasn't just to minors but to adults as well, unlike the other laws. Five months later, a federal law would pass in Russia extending bans to minors across the whole country. |
| Sources | https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/repression-and-gay-rights-russia/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2020.1740686 https://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/politics/1819502-oblduma-zapretila-propagandu-gomoseksualizma-i-pedofilii-v-regione.html https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/29/russia-anti-lgbt-law-tool-discrimination |
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0 | Original entry | |
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| Status | Fine as punishment |
| Start Date | Jan 24, 2013 |
| End Date | Jun 10, 2013 |
| Description | In January 2013, the Regional Duma of Kaliningrad banned "homosexual propaganda". It was reported that this wasn't just to minors but to adults as well, unlike the other laws. Five months later, a federal law would pass in Russia extending bans to minors across the whole country. |
| Sources | https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/repression-and-gay-rights-russia/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2020.1740686 https://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/politics/1819502-oblduma-zapretila-propagandu-gomoseksualizma-i-pedofilii-v-regione.html https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/29/russia-anti-lgbt-law-tool-discrimination |