The music video for the song “So Beautiful” has been removed area And Youtube channel pop singer Sergei Lazarev.
The other day, St. The Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles on the music TV channel Aiva. To publish the clip. Seen as LGBT propaganda reported The United press service of the city courts is on Telegram.
“It is also worth paying attention to the piece presented with a sequential alternation of frames depicting interactive hands (caressing each other), which allows the relative position in space, individual characteristics (hair, shape of the nail plate, manicure, jewelry). “They are perceived to belong to two different individuals of the same gender,” according to court records.
Such an image, according to the court, “is potentially perceived as a tactile, sensual interaction between individuals broadcasting their homosexual preferences.”
“A corresponding message is created for the viewer that people who engage in non-traditional sexual relationships are not only different from representatives of heterosexual relationships, but also that their preferences, even if they are not socially approved, are at least acceptable in society and are tantamount to unity. a man and a woman,” – stated in the protocol.
The post states two dates (August 29 and September 25) when the clip was broadcast by Aiva TV channel.
According to the Vyborg court, the TV channel “permitted the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and/or preferences.”
The video for the song “So Beautiful” was released in 2017. The video includes images of Sergei Lazarev singing, couples kissing and hugging, and parents holding hands with their children. The clip was released with the 18+ mark.
Lazarev later stated that the filming involved “real couples in love” and not professional actors. Two girls are depicted as one of the couples.
“We showed different types of love. It may be very different, but it remains love and sincere feelings. Naturally, we had both gay couples and heterosexual couples. A child’s love for his parents and vice versa. Different nationalities,” the singer admitted.
Propaganda ban
In 2013, Russia banned the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations between minors. In 2022, the law was expanded to include a ban on the dissemination of such information among adults.
On November 14, Russia submitted a report to the UN on its progress in protecting human rights. Russian Deputy Minister of Justice Andrei Loginov said in his speech that Russian legislation restricts “propaganda” of LGBT individuals, which “does not correspond to the spiritual and moral foundations of the country’s multinational population.”
He assured that “the rights of LGBT citizens are protected by legislative practice in Russia” and emphasized that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited in the country.
Two weeks after that, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the “International LGBT Movement” as extremist (recognized and banned as extremist in Russia) and banned its activities in the country.
The case was filed by the Russian Ministry of Justice due to its assessment that the movement’s activities contained “various signs and symptoms of extremist orientation, including incitement to social and religious hatred.” The ministry did not specify exactly what it considered a movement, who was in it or how it was organized.
On the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited St. LGBT people are also “part of society,” he told the United Cultures Forum in St. Petersburg.