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Added on: 02/05/2024

Woman arrested for “extremist” crime of wearing rainbow earrings in Russia

02/04/2024

Reports from Russia indicate a young woman in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, has been arrested and charged for wearing rainbow-colored earrings in violation…

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Added on: 02/04/2024

Rainbow images lead to ‘LGBT extremism’ convictions in Russia

02/03/2024

Russians courts have convicted the first two people on charges of LGBTQ extremism following the Supreme Court’s decision in November to ban the “international LGBT movement”. One…

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Added on: 02/02/2024

Russia makes first convictions for ‘LGBT extremism’ following ban

02/01/2024

(Reuters) – Two Russian courts have meted out the first convictions in connection with what the government calls the “international LGBT social movement” and which was designated…

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Added on: 01/31/2024

Armenia Denies Extradition Request for Gay Chechen Man Wanted by Russia

01/30/2024

A court in Yerevan on Tuesday rejected Russia’s request to extradite a man who fled the republic of Chechnya after being tortured because he was suspected of…

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Added on: 01/22/2024

“Institutional prejudice” What the full text of the Russian Supreme Court judgement labelling the LGBT movement ‘extremist’ tells us”

01/21/2024

In November, Russia’s Supreme Court ruled the “international LGBT movement” to be an extremist organisation, effectively outlawing LGBT activism in the country and placing anyone the authorities…

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Added on: 01/20/2024

Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry has reportedly begun calling transgender people in for questioning

01/19/2024

Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry has begun calling transgender people in for questioning in St. Petersburg and the Arkhangelsk region, reports human rights organization Sphere. Police officers are…

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Added on: 01/19/2024

First Russian prosecution of LGBT rainbow flag as “extremist symbol”

01/18/2024

A woman in Russia’s Saratov region faces charges for the first time ever of “demonstrating an extremist organisation’s symbols” after posting an image of the LGBT’s rainbow…

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Added on: 01/18/2024

‘I will pretend not to be me’: Russia cracks down on LGBTQ+ community

01/17/2024

The ink was barely dry on Russia’s decision to outlaw what it called the “international LGBT public movement” as extremist when masked police raided a bar in central…

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Added on: 01/13/2024

Gazprom-Owned TV Channel Fined for ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Over Music Video Kiss

01/12/2024

A music channel owned by the media arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom was fined $11,300 for spreading “LGBT propaganda among minors” in a 90s-era music video…

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Added on: 01/09/2024

Putin’s War Against My Marriage

01/08/2024

On November 30, Russia’s Supreme Court decided that the “international LGBT movement” was an extremist organization—at the initiative of the Russian Ministry of Justice. This ruling could…

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Added on: 01/03/2024

Russia’s War on Woke Putin Is Trying to Unite the Far Right and Undermine the West

01/02/2024

In March of this year, Russia will hold presidential elections. The contest, like ones past, will be highly choreographed, and its outcome is preordained. President Vladimir Putin,…

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Added on: 12/25/2023

‘No, that’s fascism’: the librarian who defied Russia’s purge of LGBTQ+ books

11/24/2023

As a gay man growing up in Russia, books were Vladimir Kosarevsky’s refuge, offering him a precious glimpse into lives that in some way echoed his own….

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Added on: 12/23/2023

Russian Parents Are Kidnapping Their LGBTQ+ Children and Sending Them to Conversion Therapy Camps

12/22/2023

Parents in Russia are hiring gangs of men to abduct their LGBTQ+ children and take them to conversion therapy centers, where they are held for extended periods…

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Added on: 12/22/2023

LGBTQ+ Russians ask: Should I stay or should I go?

12/21/2023

LONDON – Gay and transgender Russians say they fear further attacks on their rights following a Supreme Court ruling that designated LGBTQ+ activists as “extremists,” with some in…

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Added on: 12/13/2023

Russian Riot Police Raid Gay Club Amid Crackdown On ‘LGBT Movement’

12/12/2023

Russian riot police raided an LGBT club in Yekaterinburg less than two weeks after Russia’s Supreme Court banned the activities of the “international LGBT movement” — which…

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Added on: 12/11/2023

LGBTQ+ Russians are “ordinary people” in new photo book working to combat rising hate in the country

12/10/2023

Photographer Ksenia Kuleshova calls the subjects in her new book, Ordinary People, her “heroes.” That’s how she described them even before the Russian Supreme Court declared the “international…

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Added on: 12/08/2023

In the crosshairs

12/07/2023

Last week, Russia’s highest court deemed what it called the “international LGBT movement” to be an extremist organisation and banned its activities in the country. This is…

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Added on: 12/07/2023

Insecure and isolated: The ‘illegal’ life of Russia’s LGBT citizens

12/06/2023

Draconian laws and repression are forcing Russia’s LGBT community out of the country, but those who cannot escape face an increasingly grim fate. “My friends and I…

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Added on: 12/06/2023

Russia’s ‘Extremist’ Ban Fuels LGBT Flight

12/05/2023

Russia’s recent “extremist” designation of a loosely defined “LGBT movement” has led to a surge in emergency evacuations from the country, independent media reported Tuesday, citing the…

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Added on: 12/03/2023

Police raid Moscow gay bars after top court’s LGBTQ ‘extremist’ designation

12/02/2023

Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow shortly after a ruling by the country’s top court that designated the LGBTQ movement as “extremist”….

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Added on: 12/02/2023

The queer artist whose controversial street performances are taking on the Russian government

12/1/2023

With a painted white face and head, wearing an all-white ensemble save for long black gloves and gigantic black platform stiletto boots, Gena Marvin teeters as she…

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Added on: 12/01/2023

Russian LGBT groups begin process of dissolution in wake of Supreme Court’s ‘extremist’ ruling

11/30/2023

Human rights groups have begun reacting to the decision by Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday to deem the “International LGBT Public Movement” an “extremist organisation”. Gay human rights…

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Added on: 12/01/2023

Russian court bans ‘LGBT movement’ as ‘extremist’

11/30/2023

Russia’s Supreme Court has ruled that LGBTQ activists should be designated as “extremists”, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to…

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Added on: 11/29/2023

Gay activists in Russia fear arrest as top court weighs ‘extremist’ listing

11/28/2023

Members of Russia’s LGBTQ community fear a court ruling due on Thursday will label them “extremists” and pave the way for arrests and prosecutions of those who…

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Added on: 11/23/2023

Russia Moves to Ban Adoptions to Countries Allowing “Gender Reassignment”

11/22/2023

While the left-wing establishment has already decided that transgenderism is a sacred social pillar that civilized nations cannot touch, the reality is that the tide increasingly appears…

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Added on: 11/17/2023

Russia Moves to Ban ‘International LGBT Movement’

11/16/2023

Russia’s Justice Ministry said Friday it has filed a motion for the Supreme Court to ban what it called an “international LGBT public movement” as extremist, a move…

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Added on: 11/12/2023

‘Russia put back years’: intersex people fear fallout from sex change curbs

11/12/2023

Born intersex and raised as a boy, Polina has known for years that she wanted to live as a woman. But Russia’s sweeping curbs on gender-affirming healthcare…

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Added on: 11/10/2023

Intersex Russians fear fallout from curbs on gender-affirming care

11/10/2023

Nov 10 (Openly) – Born intersex and raised as a boy, Polina has known for years that she wanted to live as a woman. But Russia’s sweeping…

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Added on: 11/10/2023

Russian TV turns ‘LGBT’ rainbow into grey cloud in K-pop music video

11/09/2023

TNT Music, which runs a chart show dedicated to K-pop, aired the music video for boy band Seventeen’s hit song “God of Music” and replaced the rainbow featured…

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Added on: 11/02/2023

Unusual suspects

11/02/2023

Russia’s judicial statistics for the first half of this year neatly reflect life under the country’s military dictatorship in the second year of the war in Ukraine….