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"A Russian LGBT film festival has been branded a &amp;quot;foreign agent&amp;quot; by the authorities. The St Petersburg-based Bok o Bok (Side By Side) festival has fallen foul of a new law attacking non-governmental organisations accepting foreign funding. The organisation has been fined 500,000 rubles (\u00C2\u00A310,000), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The law requires that NGOs receiving funding from abroad declare themselves as &amp;quot;foreign agents&amp;quot; and submit to closer scrutiny by the government. Most organisations have refused to do so. Bok o Bok has claimed that materials it provided to the courts to show that it did not receive foreign funding were ignored, and that the judge handed down the ruling without justification. The event has been held annually since 2007. St Petersburg is one of ten Russian regions that enacted a ban on &amp;quot;homosexual propaganda&amp;quot; in 2006. Madonna was charged with breaking the law last summer after voicing her concern about Russia&amp;#039;s gay rights policies at a concert. The charges were later dismissed. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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