INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
pulling LGBT-themed works from their catalogs to avoid being shut down within hours of Russian President Vladimir Putin signing the
controversial new law.Bookstores, media outlets, film studios, TV stations, and video game makers from now on all face steep fines for
Petersburg-based tech firm VK, which owns VKontakte, said that its failure to comply with the new law would put it at risk of being blocked
that Russian users could lose access to some of the few remaining independent media outlets that have not yet been banned or shut down since
Russia invaded Ukraine in February.VK, whose CEO Vladimir Kirienko is the son of Sergei Kirienko, the deputy head of the presidential
administration, currently controls the Mail.ru email and news services, and the VKontakte and Odnoklassniki social networks, among others
