ST.-PETERSBURG, September 24 - RAPSI. The St. Petersburg Charter Court will review on September 27 a complaint submitted by LGBT rights organization founder Nikolai Alexeyev to determine whether a city law prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality among minors complies with the city's charter, the court has reported on its website.

Earlier, the LGBT rights organization stated online that legislators have violated Article 8(3) of the city's charter providing for ethnic equality, freedom of consciousness, and convictions by adopting the law. Alexeyev holds that the legislature has "broken St. Petersburg's unshakeable traditions" stipulated by the article.

In May, a magistrate's court fined Alexeyev for holding a poster quoting famous Soviet actress Faina Ranevskaya as saying: "Homosexuality is not a perversion, field hockey and ice ballet are."

The bill setting fines for "gay propaganda" came into force in St. Petersburg on March 30. It faced criticism from the LGBT community and rights activists in Russia and abroad, but was also proposed to be made into a federal law.