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Madonna Claims That Russian Court Fined her $1 Million For Supporting LGBTQ Rights in Russia

MOSCOW — Madonna is bragging about not paying. A $1 million fine purportedly slapped on her for supporting Russia’s LGBTQ people group at a 2012 show in St. Petersburg.  But the Russian court file a lawsuit gathering of preservationist activists, and the artist were never fine a solitary ruble. 

The disaster revolves around a concert Madonna played on Aug. 9, 2012, in St. Petersburg, during which she voiced her help for the nearby gay network. At the passageway to the Peterburgsky file, crowd individuals is give pink wristbands and request to wear them. During the show to show “capacity to bear the gay network.” 

In a tweet and Instagram post on Monday. Madonna connected to a video indicating some portion of her discourse that night. “I were fine 1 million dollars by The administration for supporting the Gay people group,” she composed. “I never paid.” 

In the video she tends to the crowd, a considerable lot of whom were waving rainbow banners. 

“I feel that individuals are turning out to be increasingly more terrified of individuals who are extraordinary,” Madonna says on the video. “Individuals are turning out to be increasingly bigoted. It’s an extremely unnerving time. In any case, we can have any kind of effect. We can change this. We have the force.” 

Madonna Claims

In a similar discourse, she told the crowd: “I am here to state that the gay network and gay individuals here and all around the globe have similar rights – to be treated with poise, with deference, with resistance, with sympathy, with adoration.” 

After the 2012 show, a gathering of moderate activists record a legal claim against Madonna, the scene and the advertiser, Planeta Plus, requesting 333 million rubles ($10.7 million at that point) in harms, asserting they were offend by the American artist’s announcements and activities on the side of the gay network. 

Yet, that November, St. Petersburg’s Moskovsky area court tossed out the claim, a representative for the court affirmed to Billboard on Wednesday. No fine were ever force on the craftsman, scene, or advertiser, the representative said. 

Russia Madonna Claims

Yevgeny Filkenshtein, head of PMI Group, which promoted the show, expressed their statement on Billboard. “There was no gay propaganda during the show,” “Madonna just called on the audiences to be tolerant towards people of other sexual orientation and religious persuasions,” he says. “We protected Madonna from all that in any possible way and dealt with the lawsuit by ourselves. The court eventually sided with us and the artist, and no fine was imposed.”A while after the 2012 show, Vitaly Milonov, a moderate St. Petersburg administrator who was behind an enemy of gay purposeful publicity law originally presented in the city. Afterward across the nation in Russia. However guaranteed that Madonna had disregarded Russia’s duty and relocation enactment by playing out. The show on an inappropriate kind of visa and ought to be rebuffed for that. Be that as it may, he never delivered any proof to back his cases. 

A few Russian news sources have covered Madonna’s tweet, communicating shock about the non-existing $1 million fine. Russia has generally been threatening towards homosexuality, and prejudice has been on the ascent. Same-sex couples are not permit to wed or structure common associations in Russia. 

Conclusion

She is not alone in the music network for her analysis of Russia’s undeniably hostility to gay rights. Lady Gaga and Elton John are among the pop stars who have stood in opposition to nearby and national laws affecting the LGBTQ community. Referring to an authoritative law, a St Petersburg court fine the coordinators of a 2013 Lady Gaga show for “promulgation of liquor utilization and homosexuality,” following a 13-year-old young lady were present to recreated sex between ladies. Russian President Vladimir Putin a year ago stood up against John’s reactions, saying Russia was “very neutral” at the LGBTQ community.

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