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Moscow court fines Garage museum security chief 100,000 rubles over LGBT propaganda
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A Moscow magistrate court fined Sergei Klyucherev, head of the security service at the Garage museum, 100,000 rubles on a charge of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, TASS, Kommersant and RBC reported. Kommersant said the case concerned the showing of Olga Tobrelyuts’s 1994 film “Woe from Wit” and Lyudmila Gorlova’s work “How I Love”. The exhibits were seized and examined by an expert commission that found propaganda, the paper reported.
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A magistrate court in Moscow’s Yakimanka district fined Sergei Klyucherev, head of the security service at the Moscow museum “Garage”, 100,000 rubles, Kommersant reported. TASS had earlier reported that the head of the museum’s security service was fined 100,000 rubles for LGBT propaganda, and RBC reported the same fine and the official’s post. Kommersant identified the ground as propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, noting that the “international LGBT movement” is designated extremist and banned in Russia. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
According to the court ruling as described by Kommersant, Klyucherev, as the person responsible for the display of exhibits at the museum, allowed the showing of Olga Tobrelyuts’s 1994 film “Woe from Wit” and the work “How I Love” by the artist Lyudmila Gorlova. The exhibits were removed from the museum and handed to a commission of experts, which concluded that the materials contained propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, the paper reported. Kommersant said the protocol under part 1 of article 6.21 of the Administrative Code concerning the head of the museum’s security service was registered on 5 August. [ 2 ]
Kommersant said the practical meaning of the decision is that responsibility for the content of material does not necessarily remain with the author or publisher. It cited an analogous case in 2025 in which a court fined a book company 800,000 rubles, despite the company’s objection that authors and publishers, and not the point of sale, should be answerable for the content of books; in the “Garage” case, the paper said, responsibility was placed on the employee who was in charge of displaying the exhibits. [ 2 ]
Kommersant noted that after the law banning propaganda of same-sex relations was passed at the end of 2022, restrictions spread beyond the internet and media to books, audiovisual services, cinema and advertising. For exhibition work, the paper said, this increases the importance of assessing materials in advance, and it reported that in June 2026, after a video was seized, one work in the “Garage” exhibition was replaced. [ 2 ]
Por qué importa
The ruling places responsibility for the content of an exhibition on a member of museum staff responsible for displaying it, rather than on the author or publisher, Kommersant reported, noting a similar 2025 case in which a book company was fined. Kommersant linked the case to the law passed at the end of 2022 that extended restrictions on propaganda of same-sex relations beyond the internet and media to books, audiovisual services, cinema and advertising, which the paper said raises the importance of prior assessment of materials for exhibition work.
Datos clave
- TASS, Kommersant and RBC all reported that the head of the Garage museum’s security service was fined 100,000 rubles. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Kommersant named the fined official as Sergei Klyucherev, head of the security service at the Moscow museum “Garage”. [ 2 , 3 ]
- Kommersant reported that the fine was imposed by a magistrate court in Moscow’s Yakimanka district. [ 2 ]
- Kommersant reported that the case concerned the showing of Olga Tobrelyuts’s 1994 film “Woe from Wit” and Lyudmila Gorlova’s work “How I Love”. [ 2 ]
- Exhibits were removed from the museum and passed to a commission of experts, which concluded that the materials contained propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, Kommersant reported. [ 2 ]
- Kommersant reported that the protocol under part 1 of article 6.21 of the Administrative Code concerning the head of the museum’s security service was registered on 5 August. [ 2 ]
- Kommersant noted an analogous 2025 case in which a court fined a book company 800,000 rubles despite its objection that authors and publishers, not the point of sale, should answer for book content. [ 2 ]
- Kommersant reported that in June 2026 one work in the Garage exhibition was replaced after a video was seized. [ 2 ]
Confirmado por varias fuentes
- The fine imposed on the head of the Garage museum’s security service was 100,000 rubles. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The person fined is Sergei Klyucherev, head of the security service at the Moscow museum “Garage”. [ 2 , 3 ]
- The stated ground for the fine was propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations; the “international LGBT movement” is designated extremist and banned in Russia. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
Aún sin aclarar
- Whether Sergei Klyucherev or the museum will appeal the fine, and whether either has commented. None of the documents reports a reaction, statement or appeal from Klyucherev or from the Garage museum.
- The exact date on which the court issued the fine. The documents give publication times only; Kommersant dates the registration of the protocol to 5 August but does not give the date of the ruling.
- Which specific works were at issue and what the expert commission found. This detail appears only in Kommersant among the documents available.
- The current status of the seized exhibits and of the museum’s exhibition. Kommersant says the exhibits were seized and examined, but the documents do not say what happened to them afterwards.
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- June 2026: after a video was seized, one work in the “Garage” exhibition was replaced, Kommersant reported. [ 2 ]
- 5 August: the protocol under part 1 of article 6.21 of the Administrative Code concerning the head of the museum’s security service was registered, according to Kommersant. [ 2 ]
- TASS reports that the head of the security service of the “Garage” museum was fined 100,000 rubles for LGBT propaganda. [ 1 ]
- Kommersant reports the fine, naming Sergei Klyucherev and the Yakimanka district magistrate court. [ 2 ]
- RBC reports the 100,000 ruble fine on the head of the museum’s security service. [ 3 ]