The St. Petersburg court found Roskomnadzor’s claims against Kino TV LLC about propaganda of LGBT issues to be unfounded. As a result, the case against an employee of the TV channel KINO TV LLC was dropped, according to court materials.
As noted, the Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg found that the film’s distribution certificate indicated the age category “16+” and not “18+”, which is not disputed by Roskomnadzor and is not a violation of the law.
According to the case materials, from three to five o’clock in the morning, the film “V for Vendetta” was distributed among minors, containing “a demonstration of non-traditional sexual relationships” – in the film “there is a second scene of girls kissing. Roskomnadzor considered that the film should have an “18+” restriction and that “Kino TV” itself should have changed the age, and allegedly thereby the television company contributed to the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships. The court found this interpretation unconvincing and contrary to the law.
However, the case against the channel’s editor-in-chief Sergei Katyshev has not yet been closed. However, it will be appealed in the district court. Katyshev was also fined 200 thousand rubles.
Thus, a precedent was created, experts write in Telegram channels, since the requirements of the RKN “collided” with the rules of the Russian Ministry of Culture, which has the right in the Russian Federation to put age labels on films. And if “V for Vendetta” has a qualification of “16+,” then all film distributors must strictly implement this decision.
Source: Rosbalt
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