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Russia's STS television network has cut scenes from the sitcom Voroniny that mention Vladimir Putin and Banderites, along with scenes comparing a family quarrel to war, Verstka reported, as relayed by Meduza. The network had earlier cut a scene in which characters think Lenya is gay. Meduza says Russian television channels, online cinemas, publishers, streaming services and musicians routinely censor films, series, books and songs to comply with Russian law. Scenes with LGBTQ+ characters are regularly cut under the law banning the "propaganda" of LGBTQ+ and the designation of an "international LGBT movement" as extremist. The edits add to restrictions on how war and the Kremlin can be depicted in Russian media.