Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, when asked by journalists about the arrest of a Nizhny Novgorod resident because of rainbow earrings, replied that he does not know the laws prohibiting rainbows in Russia, reports RIA Novosti.
“I can’t answer to your question. “I am not aware of any laws that prohibit rainbows in Russia,” Peskov replied.
On January 31, Nizhny Novgorod resident Anastasia Ershova was arrested for five years because of earrings in the “shape of a frog with the image of a seven-color rainbow.” . The girl was found guilty under the protocol of “demonstration of extremist symbols” (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).
As Ershova’s lawyer noted, the court was unable to determine which symbol she was “demonstrating,” but referred to the wording from the decision of the Supreme Court, which on November 30 declared the “international LGBT movement” an extremist organization.
According to human rights activists, on January 29, “aggressively minded people, presumably provocateurs” approached the girl and her friend and demanded that they remove “forbidden symbols.” They recorded the process on camera and then transferred the video to Center “E”.
The LGBT flag has six colors, not seven. At the beginning of 2023, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein said that the laws on “LGBT propaganda” “in no way prohibit or abolish the rainbow.”
“On one condition: if it is the classic seven-color rainbow that is depicted, and not "castrated" a symbol of LGBT, where the color blue is absent,” noted Khinshtein.
The case of “demonstration of symbols of an extremist organization” for the rainbow flag. Saratov