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Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’

apnews.com Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement 'extremist'

Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

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To everyone cracking jokes about a gay uprising, it's a lot simpler than any of that.
They just want to exterminate the gays. Like literally. They want to find that portion of the population and destroy it, because they think it's disgusting and evil.
That's it. Putin and the Russian conservatives are going after gays because it's an easy win with their conservative base, and they can claim moral superiority. Also distracts from Ukraine.
If you are gay in Russia... Its a very bad time to be gay in Russia.
- American "conservatives" are over here drooling at the possibilities.
  
  Florida here checking in.
  Our government is hard at work on this.
  Check out this pending bill up for vote during the next session: https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/2024/599/billtext/filed/pdf https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/2024/599/billtext/filed/pdf
  Essentially it makes it illegal to be transgender and have a job in government or government adjacent.
  Here is an excert: It is the policy of the state that a person's sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person's sex. This section does not apply to individuals born with a genetically or biochemically verifiable disorder of sex development, including, but not limited to, XX disorder of sex development; XY disorder of sex development; sex chromosome disorder of sex development; XX or XY sex reversal; and ovotesticular disorder.
  An employee or a contractor may not be required, as a condition of employment, to refer to another person using that person's preferred personal title or pronouns if such personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person's sex.
  An employee or a contractor may not provide to an employer his or her preferred personal title or pronouns if such preferred personal title or pronouns do not correspond to his or her sex.
  An employee or a contractor may not be asked by an employer to provide his or her preferred personal title or pronouns or be penalized or subjected to adverse personnel action for not providing his or her preferred personal title or pronouns.
  It continues on about not being able to fire people for thinking being gay is a sin and so on, but I don't want this to be a novel.
  
  Their Stochastic terrorism has too low of a rate. Either move onto more practical efforts, or make the whole world worse to increase the Stochastic terrorism rates.
  Well shit, they’re just going to do both.
  
  Hahaha, the word conservative dies at war doesn't it?
- This is just standard fascism. They need a constant stream of enemies weak enough that they can't defend themselves. Whom they can paint as responsible for all a societies woes.
  Fascism 101. We see Republicans employing that heavily here in the United States.
- They need a new enemy every now and then. If the current enemy happens to be exterminated, they'll need one sooner, but they'll need a new one anyways.
  
  My bet is they round up the men and send them to the front as fodder.
  
  The convenient thing about the LGBTQ+ community though is that we can pop up anywhere, at any time. The perpetual boogieman.
- That's it. Putin and the Russian conservatives are going after gays because it's an easy win with their conservative base, and they can claim moral superiority. Also distracts from Ukraine.
  There you said it. They don't care about gay people. They need an easy win with conservative public before future (mock) elections and to distract people from Ukraine. And they also want a weapon to proclaim anyone they dislike an extremist.
  Can you prove you aren't gay? Let's see. It'a either you record a video of apologizing for being gay, or we stuff a broom up your ass and you record a video of apologizing for being gay 🤗 Either way, 10 years in a joint.
  I've recently seen a good article in a ru-language blogosphere. These pieces of shit who climbed to the power in the 90s and 00s break every ladder to their positions, they want to establish themselves as new nobles, and they need a variety of tools to persecute whoever they dislike. They want the good ol' serfdom. They build it as we speak.
  It's not bad if you are gay and noble. Gref, Volodin, others are gossiped to be gay. Rather it's bad to be not in their club, like most do. Then you are in a risk of being persecuted and robbed of everything over nothing.
  It's 21th century and neo-feudalism is on the rise! Fuck, I hate it here.
  
  others are gossiped to be gay.
  Milonov. He makes a lot of anti-gay statements, but he is gossiped to be gay.
- Its a very bad time to be gay in Russia.
  I don’t think not being gay changes much in this statement
  
  I mean, they are literally mounting campaigns targeting gays now. Maybe it sucks for both but it sucks especially hard for gay people in Russia at the moment.
  E.g. Maybe it sucks to live in Mordor. But as a Goblin instead of as an Orc, maybe it sucks especially hard when Sauron starts the "let's purge the Goblins" campaign led by the Orcs.
- and the Russian conservatives
  The Russian conservatives include plenty of gay people. Obviously hypocritical, but I wouldn't expect them to support actual extermination.
  The reason such actions happen is to show the average ignorant citizen (as Putin & co imagine that) that what said person wants is being delivered. Of course the average ignorant citizen doesn't care about hurting LGBTQ people (at worst cares about hurting anyone happier than him, but still with no specifics). They just have a skewed picture of what that average citizen is, some drunk guided (in their imagination) by Russian prison culture only interested in having a better car.
  Ah, also Putin & co are not conservatives. They in general have no consistent ideology to speak of. Take anyone important - they've been with "democrats pushing for reform" in the last years of the USSR, then "democrats fighting the Communist beast" in Yeltsin's early years, then "centrists trying to prevent the integrity of the federation" in his late years, then with Putin "law against terrorism", then "law against neo-Nazis", then "economic stability unlike the bad-bad 90s", and so on. At some point they got lazy and the facades became less consistent and memorable.
  
  The Russian conservatives include plenty of gay people. Obviously hypocritical
  Example: Milonov
  They in general have no consistent ideology to speak of.
  For those who don't know difference between totalitarism and authoritarism, this is the differece.
  Take anyone important - they've been with "democrats pushing for reform" in the last years of the USSR, then "democrats fighting the Communist beast" in Yeltsin's early years, then "centrists trying to prevent the integrity of the federation" in his late years, then with Putin "law against terrorism", then "law against neo-Nazis", then "economic stability unlike the bad-bad 90s", and so on. At some point they got lazy and the facades became less consistent and memorable.
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Russia looking a lot like their old enemy the Nazis these days.
- Russia has always been anti-LGBT+. Stalin called them abomination and Putin is just a dimestore version of that monster.
  
  It's worth remembering that for all of the numerous issues Western nations and especially the US have with freedom of speech and expression, for every convert to some racist ideology, there is also a new supporter of LGBT+. The rise in hate we see is paralleled by a rise in acceptance of the marginalized. Freeze peaches is a double edged sword and always has been.
  The paradox of tolerance is certainly an issue, but the very fact we've evolved as a culture to the point we're having a discussion about it says something about the benefits of that freedom. Our culture isn't stagnant. We have the capacity for growth and change, and while the government usually maintains the social status quo, we in turn can affect what the status quo is.
  
  Not always. Soviet Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1917, and it was the first country in the world to do that. But it was recriminalized again in 1933 by Stalin.
  
  I was reading several months ago that there was a time in the mid ‘90s that there were a few gay clubs in Russia that were relatively unmolested by the cops, as long as the local “roof” was paid off.
  
  Not always, there were periods in their history of acceptance of homosexuality.
- Ironically, Russians think they are fighting Nazis in Ukraine.
  
  And Ukraine's president is Jewish.
- And they always have
- That's impossible, Putin told us the Nazis are in Ukraine!
- I don’t know people incorrectly try to associate everything with Nazi. It’s hard to take anyone serious when they don’t even know what a Nazi is.
  This isn’t dissimilar from how they were under the Soviet Union. Russians are just going to Russian.
  
  Not so much “Russians being Russian” as it is “Fascist power structure being fascist power structure “
  
  It's more accurate to say that Russia under the Soviets was also an authoritarian state.
  Authoritarians by their very nature are right-wing.
  Putin, the Soviets, the Nazis, Conservatives, and Fascists of all flavors are obsessed with control and conformity.
  It's far easier to control a population when everyone is exactly the same.
  This is why the true left wing movements have always embraced minorities and outliers.
  This of course is a call back to the very origins of the terms left and right when discussing politics. The French Revolution. A vote was held. One of the first of the new assembly. The question was, "Should the king have an absolute veto over new laws?". Those in support of the monarchy sat to the right of the speaker's podium. Those opposed sat to the left.
  All the economic bullshit of capitalism v communism was added later. Making the Soviets, a supposedly communist nation, firmly right wing. Not that the Soviets were particularly good at actual communism. Communism sort of requires the workers to control the means of production, not the State. Workers must be working for their own profit, not the profit of the State.
  Working for the profit of the State is more of a kleptocracy.
  
  The nazis criminalized, imprisoned, and eventually exterminated gay and transgender people in death camps. So yes, comparisons to nazis are fair when you criminalize lgbt people and start rounding them up in jail, preventing them from gathering together, etc etc
  
  I see you are well acquainted with the idea of redfash
  
  It's true that authleft often looks a lot like authright, which supports the theory that political alignment is more like a circle than a line. After all, they were allies before Hitler betrayed Stalin. Since then being anti-Nazi became a big part of Russian propaganda.

When you are losing the war you started.
Blame gays.
When your policies fail.
Blame gays.
When your government is less popular than cancer.
Blame gays.
When you are getting mass protests.
Blame Jews. But Jews have nukes, oops. Then blame gays!
- No, Israel has nukes. The Jews have a space laser though, which is better. Netanyahu lost his space laser privileges a long time ago, I could maybe petition the Council to let The Gays have his time slot?
- So what I'm hearing is give The Gays™️ nukes....
  
  That's one way to create a rainbow
  
  Maybe they should. Carve out a piece of land and make it a homeland for them which would included a whole mess of weapons
- Well, there are plenty of gays in the society, so they usually start with blaming weak people, like sects, youth subcultures and prostitutes, then "socially weird" pastimes (like LARP`ing or video games), then immigrants, then gays, and then finally some of the ethnic minorities with citizenship.
- Can we not blame gay Jews?
  Like especially the communist gay Jews, the true root of global disharmony
  
  Please stop using term 'communist' in context of progressive far-left socialism.
  Communism is totalitarian oppression. Every time you mention communism, you mention Stalin, you cannot separate communism and gulags.
  The communism as envisioned by Karl Marx never existed. The closest thing to Marx communism right now is Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, with their over-50% tax rates and hyper-socialist policies, and they sure as hell do not call themselves communist.
- Agreed. I appreciate a lot of Russian culture, the use of matrices, etc and some of their discoveries and all as much as the next guy, but it's sad to see the way that their government is going about with things.
  Fuck it half the problem is that straight people and breeders consistently expect themselves to not be held accountable for being assholes. Being the majority should not mean you are free from consequences when you cause harm. Love returns threefold.
  I honestly could not care if there was another world war at this stage. People who claim to give a fuck about humanity as a whole really need to start justifying why they don't deserve a war and actually try to fix their own shit or mediate stuff.
  Consider that if someone is aware they're a minority and attempt to do their best to get level without looking to do harm to the majority status quo, if they know that they could do better, they're giving you an opportunity to step up to the plate, and as for their morals ,at least they're standing up for themselves, even better if they're standing up for others by trying to teach and lead by example.
  It's like, how is it you can seriously have the audacity to ask for good things for anyone, yourself, society or your own children when you treat people like such shit that they literally choose to leave.
  It's like people asking why people leave Saudi, Russia or China etc, and you just only have to look at how ridiculously stupid and pansy the way they treat their children, saying things like they wish that they suffer for being disobedient, for being gay or for being bisexual or for not having a haircut, or for driving a car, or for not following their advise. Anyone with half a braincell would see it as a petty and weak attempt to feminise and handicap someone into compliance with the status quo simply for something they can't change.
  It's like, would I try and punish a woman by dropping a nail under the tyre or cutting the line for their brake pedal for not knowing how to change their brakepads before their wof is due? No I would not, because it's dumb as fuck and an idiotic attempt to try teach someone a lesson that very transparently demonstrates bad faith and a sadistic desire to assert dominance more than a real commitment to someone's well being and long term future.
  
  This comment is a minor masterpiece of rambling disjointed incoherence. I couldn't do better if I tried. Were you roaring drunk when you wrote it? Do you even remember writing it?

Well well well. I thought Russia said the nazis were in Ukraine. Huh. Funny, that.
- "But Vladimir, you were never going to find any Nazis out there! The Nazis were in you all along!"
  
  Perhaps the true nazis were the friends we made along the way.
- Russia never said that. Putin did.
- both can be true
  
  Sure it can. But that doesn't mean it is.
  Oh I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find one or two nazis hiding anywhere, even if they don't identy as nazi or even know what it means.
  But Russia, with its actions, have proven themselves to be an imperialist, nationalist, fascist piece of shit. And while both could be true, actions speak louder.
  
  You need to study the subject more closely before stating that (: Slavik nazism is a deep rabbithole, but for the purpose of this article, I compare two governments, and one of them does indulge in that kind of rhetoric more than the other.
  
  Yes there are stupid people everywhere. In most places they aren't literally running the country.
  
  It's a bit unsettling how this statement resembles whataboutism often employed by Russian politicians to brush off any criticism

People want to be treated like human beings regardless of who they love? Yes, that’s a dangerously extreme view. Wanting to exterminate them all is perfectly normal, however.
- "Seriously? I'm being arrested for being gay?" Extremely gay.
  
  Where is that from?
  
  Sad news for Russia. If only they made matchmaking lists instead of hit lists

- Looks legit. I wonder what will happen to all those soviet-era daycares "Rainbow"s?
- Absolutely hilarious huh

Ah yeah, the daily reminder that Russia has indeed become the comical evil country as it was always portrayed in Tom Clancys books, if not worse...
- Twin Clancy that's an old name I haven't heard in ages
  
  Twin Clancy, that's a name I never heard before 😅

clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services
That's the worst part. Being on any list of this state is a danger. Especially when they want another batch of bodies to once again storm Avdyivka. Hope they can nope-out from all possible traps. It's just... it would be totally spelled out they are here because they are gay, and it means a faith worse than death. Place is cursed.

Hexbear and lemmygrad be like: "Russia is just avoiding a potential color revolution."
- Actual quotes from Hexbears that I got when discussing Russia with them:
  "Those reactionary shitstains [the Russian government] has little to be proud of."
  "Russia is extremly Reactionary [...] thats why Russia has a Real Problem with "White Supremacy" , [and] no problems with hunting down LGBTQ+ [...]"
  Now I don't exactly see anybody on Hexbear presently discussing this particular bit of news about crackdowns on LGBT+, but I'll go post about this news on Hexbear and see how the people there react. I have a feeling it's going to be consistent with my previous experiences discussing Russia with Hexbears, which is also going to be the reaction that I'd expect from an instance that skews heavily LGBT+.
  
  My experience has been exactly the opposite. They go out of their way to defend Russia and China and will hardly utter a word of criticism against either.
- It's because they are campists. They don't actually care about egalitarianism. Or leftism.
  
  Or stateists. Well, stateists usually call themselves nationalists, who they are not.
- Those slimy bootlicking fucks on hexbear I imagine are mostly fortunate Russians that haven't been sent to the front line. I wonder if they feel anything watching their country men die in dirt while posting pig balls on the internet. Strange fucking world. I'd post this on hexbear, but I've just been banned by them, typical spineless fascists.
- Did they think the guys were gonna rise up, form a gayocracy?
  Edit: angry tankies down voting their ridiculous beliefs being talked about
  
  No, they just take a far-right government appropriating left-wing terminology in good faith, which they did since the 1920's.
  
  Like the sacred band of Thebes, but they're a government body instead of an army platoon.
- Also, if you are Russian LGBT you need to leave the country NOW. Germany is taking in asylums so there’s a way out.
  This one got me confused. Flee to a Nato country that they hate?
  
  Who says gay Russians hate NATO countries? And for that matter, who says most Russians do regardless of sexual orientation?
  I'd imagine if I hated the authoritarian autocrat of my country, I'd naturally align with countries that hated the autocrat too. Especially if said countries were offering to save my life and give me the freedom to live how I wish (so long as I'm not hurting others).
  
  Russians are not a monolith, but a lot of other Russian expats (for economic reasons) are causing issues for very well agreeing with Putin too much on non-economic issues. I know one such Hungarian in the Netherlands, who begged his colleagues to vote for Wild Geeters, because of Orbán.
- Revolution is politically inconvenient -- it's a color revolution
  Revolution fits my ideology -- it's a righteous uprising that confirms my ideology is superior
- Wouldn't lemmygrad be pro-revolution?

... and once they have rounded up and sent every minority into mandatory service for the war effort, there will be nothing left of the arts, sciences and cultural diversity, that makes a society blossom. They are undoing themselves, they don't need anybody's help.
- Russia has had this problem for decades, even before the collapse of the Soviet Union this was a problem, who would want to live in communist Russia when you could live in a democracy in the west instead, and get paid for the privilege? Anyone with a brain left. After all, all the people smuggling through the Berlin wall was going in one direction.
  But yeah their current actions are making it far worse.
  Putin doesn't care about the future of Russia though, he only cares about his legacy. The Ukrainian invasion was supposed to be the start of the second Soviet Union. The plan was to also invade places like Poland (of course that was a terrible plan that would have almost certainly resulted in the third world war but there you go). To fall at the first hurdle like this is particularly embarrassing and dangerous because it makes him look weak, and in Russia you do not want to look weak because if you do you end up dead eventually.
  If Putin manages to die of old age I'll be amazed
  
  Decades? Centuries! They are like these since centuries! And they convert the occuppied people to be and act like them too. For example here in hungary, a lot of people who lived and were young under soviet occupation, want to turn back to those times, so they vote on orbán's fidesz, and his comrades, who building back the feudal-commie style dictatoric regime.
- It’s what fascists do. Franco did it, Hitler, Pinochet, etc. anything that can be perceived as subversive must be taken care of.
- Russia has been doing and undoing itself the whole history. Meanwhile, who suffers? The minorities. You could compile a list of cultures they destroyed across Siberia, the Pontic Steppe and the Caucasus. And this process is still ongoing.
- History is destined to repeat itself...

I dunno if anyone is interested but of you got some spare coins laying around the Canadian based charity Rainbow Refugee has been helping get out threatened LGBTQIA+ folks from multiple countries including Russia for quite a while now by arranging sponsorships and legal support and advice for LGBTQIA asylum seekers. If you know anyone looking to get out or would like to donate here's a link :
https://www.rainbowrefugee.com/
- My daughter is queer and if Trump wins, we will probably have to seek refuge in Canada. I have an uncle there, which will also help, but this is a good resource. Thanks.
  
  Nothing happened to lgbt people when Trump was in office. It won't happen if he gets voted back in. Like Trump or not, he's never been anti-lgbt.
  
  People said that last time trump won and literally nobody actually followed through
- Thank you for contributing something helpful and useful to this conversation.

Meanwhile "pro lgbtq" hexbears keep licking Putins boots
- That's because they're all 12 years old and have no brain. When you talk to them it's quite clear they don't actually know what they're talking about. My favourite thing to do is quote events and dates at them of things that that didn't happen, and most of the time they don't pick up on it.
  
  when you argue they will just post the pig poop balls
- Gold medal in olympic mental gymnastics
- Yea it's such a weird gymnastics move

extremist organization
Of course, why did nobody ever think of targetting the President of Homosexual International?! Perhaps a drone strike? I bet he's hiding in a school or hospital somewhere in Ukraine.
- Extremist movement, not organization. Organization needs to be registered as one, while extremist movement is from amendments to "extremism" laws, that were used to ban Golos movement first.
- It's perfectly reasonable to blow up UN schools if one claims there are gay terrorist tunnels under them...
  /s

With everything going on with Russia they still have time for this bullshit!
- That's kinda the whole point of this bullshit. Russia's entire history is "things go bad? find an enemy and attack them." This distracts the populace and makes the ruler (at least theoretically) look "strong". This is why "war" is the answer to almost any problem in Russia. For Nicholas II this didn't work out though, when he attacked Japan hoping for a quick victory, but ended up losing and exacerbating problems at home, which then led to the collapse of Russia.
- It's a core foundation of Fascism to define "us" and "them" groups, blame the "them" and if in power followup those words with actual actions against said "them".
  Sex being the thing which generates the most tension in peoples' minds in present day society - we pretty much all want it and yet we're taught that it's somehow "impure" and interiorize all sorts of boundaries around it and judgements on people who don't obbey said boundaries - it's only natural that people who are a minority in practicing some sexual practices that the majority does not are chosen as "them".
  We might have the tech, but socially and psychologically most of humanity are barelly changed from cavemen days and we might have even gone backwards (there was a time when nakedness was far less "frowned upon"), so cross these two of the biggest disfunctions in the psyche of many - sex and tribalism - and you end up with this kind of shit.
  
  It’s a core foundation of Fascism to define “us” and “them” groups,
  I'm pretty sure this is just a fundamental way to understand groups, any groups. How would a group exist without an "us" and a "them"?

How I spent summer. Essay.
In the morning we with my mom went to beach. There we've seen jellyfish(recognized as unwanted organization, included in the list of foreign agents).
Then it rained(recognized as unwanted organization, included in the list of foreign agents). After rain came rainbow(which is element of extremist movement symbolics).
Also mom showed me memorial in city center. Memorial is included in list of foreign agents, its activity in Russia is suspended by the court's decision

First they came for the >!socialists!< democrats, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a >!socialist!< democrats.
Then they came for the >!trade unionists!< journalist, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a >!trade unionist!< journalist.
Then they came for the >!Jews!< Gays, and I did not speak out— Because I was not >!a Jew!< gay.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
- They already came for communists.
  
  Udaltsov is a communist only if you think that the Soviet Union was communist. The reason for his constant arrests was his opposition to Putin.
  
  Recent news
- All very deep, except the Russians probably arrest or kill anyone who speaks out, so it's not exactly as simple as that.
  
  And the Nazis didn't?
- Also they to ban Golos movement first

Imagine the constant thinking about gay and transsexual specific activies that's leads somebody to the point of voting to make them illegal.
Regular people don't constantly think about it, so they don't actually care one way or the other.
No wonder that it's extremelly common to discover that the very people who keep raging about homosexuallity were closet homosexuals.
Grow up, embrace whatever you trully are and move on: no need to punish others for your own sexual self-repressions.

Lets see Lemmygrad.ml appology card.

@Stamau123 What were they looking for 👀
People who like getting their shirt off?
- They're creating lists of people and looking into their associated social networks. Do you want to be on a list of people your government has suddenly associated with crime and terrorism because your cousin went to a gay bar?
  
  Fuck no let's not do that, I'm looking for a list of people with good fashion and brains to eat, but people to oppress what kind of terrible monster would do such a thing!
  
  @Szymon Unfortunately tactics used in the american south of course.
- They took lots of photos to pour over in the evidence room that night
  
  @Stamau123 😉 Exactly
  sure Putin asked for copies - just so he could observe how unRuski they are.

The raids follow a decision by Russia’s Supreme Court to label the country’s LGBTQ+ “movement” as an extremist organization.

The loftiest ruler is barely known among those below. Next comes a ruler people love and praise. After that, one they fear, And then one they despise.
How sincere will the Russians remain for this man?

Well, I suppose that one way to get blocked, u/soot
- It's one loser making a bunch of accounts and spamming several instances.
  If anything this shows the need for better automated mod tools.
  
  I don't get it. Is this news article wrong? Who is u/soot?

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.
Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.
The ruling, which was made in response to a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry, is the latest step in a decadelong crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights under President Vladimir Putin, who has emphasized “traditional family values” during his 24 years in power.
Activists have noted the lawsuit was lodged against a movement that is not an official entity, and that under its broad and vague definition authorities could crack down on any individuals or groups deemed to be part of it.
Before the ruling, leading Russian human rights groups had filed a document with the Supreme Court that called the Justice Ministry lawsuit discriminatory and a violation of Russia’s constitution.
Earlier this month, Russian media quoted Deputy Justice Minister Andrei Loginov as saying that “the rights of LGBT people in Russia are protected” legally.
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Russia bad
- Yes, Russia oppressing LGBTQ+ people is bad.
- You got that right. Russia is not required to be bad, though. We're all hoping they improve. Any day now.
- Just distinguish between the government's decision and the people. I don't know if I would demonstrate there at the moment if someone kept falling out of the window, so I don't presume to judge. But the government has moved very far away from human rights.
  
  Russia seems to have a long history of just getting it wrong. There is something inherently russian about it, so it's not just the government.

For a second I read it as if we invadeed a Russian gay bar and revealed that Russia was ok with gays.

Let’s allow Europe and US deal with their gays, lgbt, the Papa-gay, hermofrodites, lesbians, feminists, gay-lesbians, horses, half-men-half-women, lesbian-gays and other bitter, angry shit. Russia will deal with their men and women on its own.
- Bitter angry shit? You talking about yourself there?
  
  Bitter angry shit?
  Bitter. Angry. Shit.
- This is the dumbest take I've seen on anything in a while. Eat shit.
- I eat salt and then I grow thorns, tubules and icicles hahaha
  Big potato salad 😋

Why do you care about what happens in Russia, though?
- Why did we care what was happening in Germany in the 1930's?
  
  Now you have the answer why Russia must fight in Ukraine, and why it'll win.

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