Russian police reportedly confiscated a schoolkid's painting of same-sex couples made for a UN international day of tolerance

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• Police in Russia seized 17 paintings from a school, Russian state media reported.
• The pictures were made to celebrate a UN "International Day of Tolerance" — and one showed two men together and two women together.
• Other confiscated pictures showed rainbows, commonly used as an LGBT symbol.
• The Yekaterinburg Ministry of Internal Affairs said they were seized "for inspection," the report says.
• Russia has harsh laws which prohibit the promotion of "non-traditional" sexualities to children.

Police in Russia reportedly confiscated 17 pictures painted by schoolkids for a UN "International Day of Tolerance," one of which showed people of the same sex together. 

Police went to School 155 in the city of Yekaterinburg and seized 17 drawings to investigate, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Thursday, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. 

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