Yelena Klimova fined 50,000 roubles after court rules Deti-404 site guilty of distributing ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors’.

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The founder of an online community for LGBT teenagers in Russia has been fined under the country’s law against gay propaganda.

Elena Klimova was fined 50,000 roubles (£540) after a court in Nizhny Tagil concluded that Deti-404, which has pages on Facebook and Russian social network VK, was guilty of distributing “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors”. Klimova said she would appeal against the ruling.

Kilmova successfully appealed against a fine levied by a court in the same town in January.

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