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Russian LGBT Activist Faces Prison Time Over Social-Media Pages


Russian LGBT Activist Faces Prison Time Over Social-Media Pages
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Yulia Tsvetkova, an artist and activist in Russia's Far East, runs social-media pages focusing on women's art and LGBT issues. Her posts prompted officials to charge her with “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors” and distributing pornography, an offense for which she could face years in prison.

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