Roskomnadzor (RKN) has blocked access to the popular fan fiction website Fikbook (Book of Fan Fiction) in Russia. Information regarding the blocking appeared in the universal service for checking access restrictions to department websites.
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The site publishes fan works, including stories and poems based on books, movies, TV series, animations and other projects. The site is the largest Russian-language platform for online publications of not only fan fiction, but also original stories, as well as literary articles.
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Earlier, on July 9, RKN made the owners of the site “Book of Fan Fiction” are required to remove content with LGBT propaganda from the resource (the “international LGBT movement” is recognized as extremist in Russia and is prohibited). “The resource contains many LGBT sections, in connection with which Roskomnadzor has previously repeatedly sent the site notifications demanding their removal,” RKN stated, adding that the owners of the resource had previously removed prohibited information from some pages and moved it to others.
“The agency sent a demand to the owners of the Latvian Russian-language commercial platform “Book of Fan Fiction” to remove information from the site that promotes non-traditional sexual relations. If the resource ignores the agency’s demands, Roskomnadzor will restrict access to the site,” the agency reported.
In April, the Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Issues, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood of the Russian Orthodox Church, Priest Fyodor Lukyanov, also spoke at the “Safe Internet Forum” called block the fan fiction resource. He claimed that on the basis of “Ficbook” there is “an entire community of pedophiles, representatives of LGBT, who encourage children to write such works.”
In November 2022, the State Duma passed a law on a complete ban on the propaganda of LGBT, pedophilia and gender reassignment, and large fines for violations. Before the law was signed by the president on December 5, 2022, only the propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors was banned in the country – the corresponding law was adopted in 2013. The new law banned “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences” among Russians of all ages and the dissemination of information “capable of causing a desire to change gender” in adolescents. And on November 30, 2023, the Supreme Court, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, recognized the “international public movement LGBT” as extremist and banned its activities in Russia.
