A Russian newspaper editor has reportedly become the first media member to be fined under the country's controversial law banning "gay propaganda." The alleged transgression? Printing an interview with a geography teacher who called homosexuality "normal" and said he was assaulted and pressured into quitting his job for being gay
The small local newspaper and its Editor-in-Chief Alexander Suturin were originally accused of breaking Russia's law banning "gay propaganda" in November, as reported in The Guardian at the time
Suturin has now been fined 50,000 rubles ($1,400), the local news site arumburg.ru reported Thursday. It is the first such punishment levied against a media worker or publication under the law, according to Russian news outlet RIA Novosti. The average household income in Russia, by comparison, is just over $15,000 per year, according to the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Read more...
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