"Why did the FSB miss the airfield attacks? They were busy fighting LGBT rights": University professors from four Russian regions accused of spreading "LGBT propaganda"
The FSB stated that teachers from universities Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk и Tomsk areas "to the detriment of Russia's security" they collaborated with the British Oxford Russia Fund.
On the foundation's ostensible instructions, the teachers distributed literature and manuals "promoting support for sexual minorities and LGBT values." The FSB is confident that through these contacts, the Oxford Russia Fund was able to obtain information about the domestic political and socioeconomic situation in Russia.
Fifteen teachers have already received official warnings about the inadmissibility of such contacts. One teacher was brought to administrative responsibility for "participating in the activities of a foreign organization deemed undesirable." And one university was issued a "request to eliminate the causes and conditions that create threats to national security."
The FSB press release does not specify which universities in the Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, and Tomsk regions are being discussed.
NeMoskva has managed to find out that the teacher, convicted of “participating in the activities of a foreign organization,” Evgeniya Kislyakova from Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University.
Kislyakova's sentence was handed down by a judge in 2023. Irina GalakhovaShe was sentenced to a fine of 5 rubles. At the court hearing, the teacher admitted guilt but explained that the university had been collaborating with the Oxford Russia Fund since 2010, for example, by organizing joint seminars, including offsite ones. Kislyakova herself participated in a seminar with Karen Hewitt and the fund in 2022. She was unaware that the fund had been declared undesirable.
"Well, hello, 1937," "Paranoids are terrorizing normal people," "Are teachers the new spies?", "If there's a man, there's a case," "It's strange they didn't start with the deputies," "Now I understand why the FSB missed the attacks on the airfields. They were busy fighting LGBT," Russians are commenting on social media.
The Oxford Russia Fund was founded in 2005 and focused, among other things, on a scholarship program for students at Russian humanities universities. A total of 20 Russian universities became partners of the fund. Since 2021, the fund's activities in Russia have been deemed undesirable.
