Thanks to Roy Greenslade at The Guardian for this tidbit.
Russian paper accused of ‘gay propaganda’ for reporting news
A Russian newspaper has been accused of breaking the country’s “gay propaganda” law because it published a news story about a teacher who was fired because of his sexual orientation.
The state’s media watchdog, the Federal Mass Media Inspection Service (FMMIS), sent the editor-in-chief of the Molodoi Dalnevostochnik a notice claiming the item propagated homosexual relations.
It followed a report in the paper, based in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, that included an interview with geography teacher Alexander Yermoshkin about the circumstances of his dismissal
I guess Moscow will use any excuse to shut down reporting it doesn’t like.
Journalism, Journalists and the World 