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MOSCOW: <\/strong>A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a feminist activist and artist charged with disseminating pornography after she shared artwork depicting female anatomy online \u2014 a case in line with the Kremlin\u2019s conservative stance promoting \u201ctraditional family values\u201d that has been widely seen as controversial and elicited international outrage.<\/p>\n

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Yulia Tsvetkova, 27, from the far-eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, faces up to six years in prison on charges reportedly related to her group on the popular social network VKontakte where colorful, stylized drawings of vaginas were posted. Tsvetkova is not allowed to give details of accusations against her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The first hearing in the Komsomolsk-on-Amur court on Monday comes a year and a half after Tsvetkova was first detained, and eight months after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed constitutional amendments that outlawed same-sex marriage and tasked the government with \u201cpreserving traditional family values.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tsvetkova’s lawyer, Irina Ruchko, told reporters after the hearing that Tsvetkova maintains her innocence and that her defense team intends to prove it in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tsvetkova ran a children\u2019s theater and was a vocal advocate of feminism and LGBT rights. She founded an online group, called Vagina Monologues, encouraging followers to fight stigma and taboo surrounding the female body, and posted other people\u2019s art in it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Amnesty International last week called the case, which is being heard behind closed doors, \u201cKafkaesque absurdity\u201d and urged Russian authorities to drop all charges against the activist who was merely \u201cfreely expressing her views through art.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tsvetkova\u2019s mother, Anna Khodyreva, echoed this sentiment in an interview with The Associated Press last week and said that the court should dismiss the case. \u201cYulia has always been against pornography. \u2026 Feminists are against pornography because it\u2019s exploitation of women\u2019s bodies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tsvetkova was detained in November 2019 and spent the next four months under house arrest. Her home was raided, as well as her mother’s education studio for children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The activist was fined twice for violating Russia\u2019s law against disseminating gay \u201cpropaganda\u201d to minors. The court ordered Tsvetkova to pay a fine of 50,000 rubles ($780) in December 2019 for running an LGBT-themed online group, and 75,000 rubles ($1,060) more in July 2020 for a drawing in support of LGBT families. The second fine was later decreased to 50,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Many public figures have spoken out in her support, including Russian state TV veteran Vladimir Pozner. Activists across Russia protested her prosecution, artists dedicated performances to her, and an online petition demanding to drop the charges gathered over 250,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Saturday, an exhibition of Tsvetkova’s paintings opened in St. Petersburg. \u201cThe snowball of censorship has started to bother the artistic community very much, and we understood that if we don’t stand up for Yulia, don’t support her, any other person can be next,\u201d artist Alexei Gorbushin, who organized and took part in performances in Tsvetkova’s support, said at the exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The European Union’s delegation to Russia said in a tweet last week that the bloc \u201cis closely following” the case against Tsvetkova and that \u201capparently, her persecution is related to her public position as an LGBT activist.” The delegation called on Russian authorities to stop the prosecution of the activist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The past two years have been an ordeal for both Tsvetkova and her mother. As well as the pressure from the authorities, they say they received death threats and were repeatedly harassed by strangers. Khodyreva\u2019s education studio for children has lost a vast number of clients. Tsvetkova\u2019s children\u2019s theater no longer exists \u2014 frequent visits from law enforcement were too distressing for the children, and it was decided to shut it down, Khodyreva said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt is terrifying. I\u2019m still looking back at the door even now,\u201d Khodyreva told the AP. \u201cThe police have barged in so many times that \u2026 I\u2019m not ready to have the children involved in this mayhem.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tsvetkova\u2019s troubles seem to have started when Merak, the children\u2019s theater, was preparing to show a play about gender stereotypes, titled \u201cThe Blues and the Pinks,\u201d in March 2019 at a theater festival she organized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The festival lost two venues it found, Khodyreva said, and police questioned children involved in the play about whether Tsvetkova, who directed it, talked to them about LGBT issues. The play had nothing to do with LGBT issues \u2014 the name referred to colors traditionally associated with boys and girls, but in the 1990s, \u201cblue\u201d and \u201cpink\u201d in Russian were popular colloquialisms for gay men and women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to Khodyreva, police didn\u2019t talk to the children\u2019s parents, many of whom supported her and her daughter, and this experience was very traumatic for the theater\u2019s young students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe saw how bad the children felt. We saw how the boy who came up with the name for the play cried, thinking it was his fault,\u201d Khodyreva said, adding that another boy who worried he\u2019d told police something about her daughter cried.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tsvetkova was repeatedly summoned for interrogations. In March 2019, the activist said she was questioned about a series of her drawings called \u201cA Woman is Not a Doll.\u201d The cartoonish depictions of naked or semi-naked women bore captions such as \u201cReal women have hair on their bodies \u2014 and that\u2019s normal,\u201d \u201cReal women have body fat \u2014 and that\u2019s normal.\u201d Police alleged the images were pornographic, Tsvetkova said in a VKontakte post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Months later, she was detained and charged with disseminating pornography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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