[Russia] - Popular St. Petersburg Bookstore Fined $10K for 'LGBT Propaganda'A judge in St. Petersburg ordered the century-old bookstore Podpisniye Izdaniya to pay a fine of 800,000 rubles ($10,000) after it was discovered to promote LGBT propaganda, reg

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works by authors like Susan Sontag and Olivia Laing, according to officials
The charges stem from an April search during which law enforcement authorities ordered the bookstore to remove 48 books.The Kuibyshevsky
District Court found the bookstore guilty of disseminating banned content Wednesday afternoon, according to the local news outlet
Fontanka.The ruling comes amid a wider crackdown on independent bookstores across Russia
claims it does not maintain an official list of banned literature, journalists and booksellers have circulated extensive unofficial lists
Many major booksellers have removed LGBTQ+ books from their shelves preemptively in an effort to avoid legal repercussions.