Sergey Zaitsev

Affiliated media: TV Center, Producer

Incident date: February 5, 2025

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Verstka

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The court fined Sergey Zaitsev, producer of the Moscow government-owned TV Center channel, 200,000 rubles (2,168 EUR) under an article on “demonstrating” LGBT relationships without an “18+” label. The reason for the fine was an episode of the program “The Nineties,” which showed footage of tennis player Martina Navratilova's family life.