Wikipedia fined in Russia for "LGBT propaganda"

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court has imposed several new fines on the Wikimedia Foundation, the owner of Wikipedia, for "refusing to censor" content. The total amount of the fines issued by the court regarding these "violations" exceeds 15 million rubles. Among the cited violations is content within the encyclopedia deemed to constitute "LGBT propaganda."

According to information on the Moscow courts' website, Judge Alexandra Anokhina presided over four similar cases against the Wikimedia Foundation today, Parni+ reported. All the cases fall under Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. This provision applies when a website owner fails to comply with a demand from Roskomnadzor (the federal media regulator) to remove specific content.

In addition to "LGBT propaganda," the encyclopedia was found to contain information regarding state standards used by the Ministry of Defense; the judge classified this information as a "military secret."

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